Edge Davao 5 Issue 80

Edge Davao 5 Issue 80, June 24-25, 2012

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VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
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Serving a seamless society
Dabawenyos oppose
Indulge
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Conversion of SPMC,
DRH to corporations
By Lorie A. Cascaro
D
ABAWENYOS are joining the nationwide opposition to convert 26 government hospitals, including awardwinning medical centers in Davao, into gov-
ernment-owned and controlled corporations
(GOCCs).
For one, representatives from various
women organizations in Davao converged
last Friday to discuss their participation in
the nationwide protest against the House
Bill (HB) 6069 or converting 26 government
hospitals into government corporations. The
opposition is being spearheaded in Congress
by the progressive women’s group Gabriela.
Sponsored by Bacolod Rep. Anthony
FCONVERSION, 13
Science/Environment
Page 7
Sports
Page 15
SEIZED TRICYCLES. Appearing like a parade, Land Transportation Office personnel drive impounded tricycles in a single line along the Ecoland and Sandawa intersection on
Friday afternoon. [KARLOS MANLUPIG]
3 cemeteries atop aquifer alarm WMC
By Antonio M. Ajero
Follow Us On
M
EMBERS of the Davao City Watershed
Council (WMC) headed by Mayor Sara
Duterte-Carpio expressed concern
over the cavalier attitude of the public, especially businessmen and government officials,
on the protection and management of the
aquifer in barangay Dumoy and neighboring
areas, as main source of potable water of the
city’s more than a million people.
The topic came up during last Wednesday’s monthly meeting of the WMC presided
over by forester Christopher Asibal of the
City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro).
The council expressed alarm over the
application for the establishment of three
private memorial parks in the vicinity of the
Dumoy aquifer. The three are Fair Fields Memorial Park in a six-hectare land owned by
Francis Ledesma, in barangay Baliok, said
to be near a production well of the Davao
City Water District; the Eternal Gardens Memorial Park owned by a cooperative, on a
1.6-hectare lot in barangay Lubogan, and the
Forest Lake Memorial Park in sitio Ulas, barangay Talomo.
Fairfields’s approval is being pushed by
no less than Councilor Bernardo Al-ag, chairman of the city council committee on health,
F3 CEMETERIES, 13
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THE BIG NEWS
87 firms violate
safety standards
By Edward Lactaoen
D
EPARTMENT of Labor and Employment
(DOLE) regional director Joffrey M. Suyao says that
87 out of the 599 establishments in the Davao region
have violated occupational
safety and health regulations.
Suyao made the revelation during the Kapihan sa
PIA press forum at the Philippine Information Agency
office last June 22.
He said the inspection,
which began last March, will
end in November, this year.
Of the 87 erring establishments, 47 were construction industries. The most
common of their violations
were the lack of safety wear
in construction sites, such as
hardhats, safety shoes and
harnesses when working in
elevated areas. Other violations were the lack of onsite
nurses and doctors, resulting in the issuance of a stoppage order to the violating
By Maybelle Anne C. Yutiamco
T
Wanted
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construction industry.
In explaining how stoppage orders affect the
companies, Suyao said the
companies are still obliged
to pay their workers their
wages, even if construction
was halted, resulting in loss
of money without any progress on the building.
Work-related accidents
in construction sites happen
mostly during the finishing
phases of construction. “Pag
patapos na, ‘yun ang time
na maraming aksidente kasi
nagmamadali na, kampante
na.” (When it’s almost done,
that’s the time that there are
more accidents because they
start to rush, they become
less concerned).
DOLE schedules these inspections with the establishments, but prioritizes those
whom they’ve received complaints about.
Suyao hopes to establish
a “culture of voluntary compliance” by establishments
and for the workers not to
view DOLE inspections as a
sort of policing activity.
CRO training guros
to register births
he Civil Registration
Office recently trained
ten more public school
teachers who will be deputized to accept birth registration in remote areas of
Davao City,
Lawyer Leo Anthony R.
Braceros, CRO chief, said the
ten teachers are prepared to
settle parents’ concerns on
errors found in their children’s birth certificates, like
erroneous surnames, as well
as legitimation concerns.
Such mistakes hamper the
qualification of some graduating students.
The trained teachers will
be accessible to parents during the enrollment period,
and can handle problems
concerning students’ records
throughout the school year.
This program has been
in effect for over a year and
has trained teachers as well
as social workers to enhance
their skills in dealing with
civil registration problems.
The program initially
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started in only eleven central district schools, like Sta.
Ana and Marilog districts, but
is today serving over thirty
schools.
The program is part of
the Service Caravan with Mobile Registration, initiated by
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio
that gives citizens, especially
those in remote areas, access
to managing and correcting
records held by the CRO.
The Caravan, usually
held during the Araw ng Barangay celebration in each
area, van, according to Braceros, uses the same process
and requirements so that
residents of each area will
have no need to go to the
main office in order to manage their records.
Currently in its infancy
phase, the program will later be involved in providing
equipment like computers
with direct database, digital
certification with the corresponding bar code and
printers.
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. Customers view the display mounted in SM City Davao which is part of the 10th Mindanao Design and Construction Fair.
DILG allots P47M Challenge
Fund for Davao Region LGUs
[KARLOS MANLUPIG]
T
HE Department of
the Interior and Local
Government (DILG)
has allotted P47 million Performance Challenge Fund
(PCF) as incentives for good
governance-compliant local
government units (LGUs) of
Region XI.
For this year’s PCF release, priorities are the
LGUs belonging to the 1st3rdincome class municipalities and cities.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse
M. Robredo said, “In this
region, I am so pleased
to announce that all local
government units passed
the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH). Because without
the SGH, there will never be
PCF.”
“Meaning, to be able to
qualify and avail of the PCF
funds, LCEs must comply
with the government’s full
disclosure policy on the use
of public funds, exemplary
governance and delivery of
basic services,” Robredo explained.
The SGH for LGUs is in
line with the Department’s
commitment to aggressively
scale up interventions to elevate the practice of good,
accountable, participatory
and transparent governance; commitment to public interest; and development.
Regional Director Francisco C. Jose said that SGHcompliant and PCF recipient
LGUs may use the fund to
jumpstart local development initiatives that are
aligned with the national
government’s program for
the attainment of the Mil-
lennium Development Goals
such as on tourism and economic development, disaster risk reduction and management and solid waste
management.
The PCF may also be
used to finance projects
such as school buildings,
rural health units, water
and sanitation system, local
roads and bridges, slaughterhouses, flood control,
reforestation, postharvest
facilities, cold storage facilities and other programs and
projects that would enhance
local government services.
More importantly, the
PCF is not intended as competition among LGUs but to
reward them for helping the
government attain the MDG
of reducing poverty and improving the opportunities
for poor households to rise
above their current conditions.
Congress earlier allotted some P500 million for
the DILG’s PCF funds for
the various SGH-compliant
LGUs nationwide, giving
out P1 to P7 million each to
qualified recipients.
Robredo said DILG also
intends to set aside funds
for those LGUs who will be
awarded with the Seal of Disaster Preparedness (SDP).
“Through the SDP program, we will not only provide incentives to LGUs that
fared well on disaster preparedness, we will also be
able to assess performance
gaps, provide policy or program intervention based
on the identified gaps, and
monitor performance progress,” Robredo explained.
Aside from recognizing
outstanding OFW families, the MOFYA aims to
promote best practices in
achieving optimal success
in all aspects of life in the
face of overseas migration
of one or more members
of the household.
All 17 regions will
have two MOFYA winners,
one from land-based category and one from the
sea-based category, thus a
total of 34 MOFYA regional
winners.
Among the regional
winners, two national
winners, one each from
land-based and sea-based
categories, will be chosen
as the MOFYA.
Two more regional
winners shall be cited for
Special Awards namely
Outstanding Achievement
in Community Projects
and Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship,
thus a total of four MOFYA
national awardees.
Since its inception, two
national awardees have
come from the region,
namely Virgencita Maizarah Ambrusio Lagunsay,
an OFW in Saudi Arabia,
who was the 2007 MOFYA
natonal winne; and, Capt.
Norberto C. Bajenting, the
Outstanding Entrepreneur
for the Special Award.
Nomination of an
OFW family may be done
by any non-government
organization; people’s organization; religious organization or association;
community-based socio
civic organizations/associations; and, local government units.
To be qualified, an
OFW family should meet
the following criteria: The
family is headed by an
OFW (land- or sea-based),
formerly or presently
working abroad with a formal or informal contract
of employment or work
permit, and with proof of
OWWA membership;
It is important that the
OFW’s migration is not
Fishery and marine More nominees wanted for model OFW family
biology graduates
By Lorie A. Cascaro
T
HE lack of manpower
to protect and conserve the coastal areas
beyond municipal waters
has led the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(BFAR) of the Department of
Agriculture (DA) to create a
quick response team (QRT)
in each region.
This is the objective of the
capability building and skills
training on fishery resource
protection and law enforcement for quick response
team (BFAR FRPLE-QRT)
being conducted since June
18 until June 27 at the Royal
Mandaya Hotel, Davao City.
BFAR Director Asis Perez,
in an interview last Friday,
said nine individuals were
hired under job orders to
compose the QRT for each
region, although the bureau
intends to increase the team
members to 20.
Wanted are graduates
of, and licensed in fisheries,
marine biologists, criminologists, and legal officers.
He said the program aims
to create opportunities for
fisheries graduates, thus, the
BFAR is encouraging local
government units to employ
them.
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T
HE Davao region’s
Overseas Workers
Welfare Administration (OWWA) is calling
for more nominees for
the regional search for the
Model Overseas Filipino
Workers (OFW) Family of
the Year Award (MOFYA).
Model families are
those who have maintained strong family relations; properly managed
financial benefits from
OFW’s overseas employment; have educational
achievements and exemplary performance in their
respective
professions;
and, at the same time have
a positive impact on their
community.
[DILG 11/MIKA-ChAN S. MAGtULIS]
FMORE, 13
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ONB CENTER INAUGURATED
One Network Bank, the widest and most modern rural banking network in the country today, further
raises the bar for rural banking as it inaugurated its multi-storey corporate structure last May 21, 2012.
Dubbed as the ONB Center, the P117.4 million worth edifice with 9,670 square meters of space is the new
home of ONB Head Office staff of more than 300 professionals. ONB Center now counts among the major
landmarks of Davao City.
In a momentous event, a gathering of 16 bishops and 9 priests joined
the stockholders, officers and staff of ONB in the inaugural rites of the
7-storey ONB Center last Monday, May 21. Davao Archbishop Fernando
R. Capalla officiated the blessing rites which started at 10am. He was
assisted by Archbishop Romulo Valles, Bishop Romulo Dela Cruz,
Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos, Fr. Jess Esparagoza, Fr. Gus Nazareno, Fr.
Mervin Maglana, Fr. Reiner Franke, Fr. Alfredo Palomar and Msgr. Julius
Rodulfa.
After the blessing rites, a Thanksgiving Mass was concelebrated with
more bishops and priests, namely: Archbishop Angel Lagdameo,
Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, Bishop
Patricio Alo, Bishop Wilfredo Manlapaz, Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez,
Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar, Bishop Julius Tonel, Bishop Antonieto
Cabajog, Bishop Jose Romeo Lazo, Bishop Antonio P. Palang, Auxiliary
Bishop George Rimando, Fr. Ritsche Gamaya, Fr. Junar dela Victoria and
Msgr. Paul Cuison.
The inauguration of the ONB Center was graced by special guests
Mrs. Fredesvinda A. Consunji, Mrs. Josefa Consunji-Reyes, BSP Davao
Regional Office Director Atty. Demetrio Casipong and Davao City
Councilor April Marie Dayap. Also present in the event were ONB’s
Board of Directors, led by Chairman Victor A. Consunji and President
Alex V. Buenaventura.
ONB Center located along Km. 9, Sasa, Davao City was constructed by
DMCI, recognized as the prime “Builder of Landmarks” in the country
and a pioneer of advanced engineering technology application
ONE NETWORK BANK
A Rural Bank
www.onenetworkbank.com.ph
in Philippine construction. The building is rendered in a modern
design and places a premium on efficient energy use. As a primary
undertaking towards streamlining the Bank’s branch support system
and increasing back office efficiency, the ONB Center is a dedicated
space for backstopping all of One Network Bank’s branch and offsite
operations. It substantially enhances the workspace of the head office
units of the Bank with its spacious, comfortable and multi-functional
features complete with state-of-the-art training facilities and a roof
deck with a chapel, a fitness gym and a basketball/badminton court.
Shortly after establishing its presence in the Visayas through a
partnership agreement with Rural Bank of San Enrique in Iloilo last
April 21, 2012, ONB continued its expansion mode meant to deliver
modern banking services in the countryside. The bank inaugurated
three (3) more branches in Butuan City, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental
and Sangali, Zamboanga City last April 25-27, 2012, increasing its total
branch count to 86. The bank also inaugurated its newly renovated
Compostela branch last April 25, 2012.
With the inauguration of ONB Center, ONB strengthens its pursuit of
being the prime provider of modern banking services to progressive
communities. ONB continues to redefine rural banking, providing
countryside clients with cost efficient and hassle-free transactions.
Today, the bank operates with 85 branches in Mindanao, 1 branch in
Makati and a fleet of 121 ATMs. For the second quarter of 2012, the bank
is set to deploy 10 more PeraAgad ATMs and open 5 Micro Banking
Offices (MBOs) in growth centers within the Davao City area.
The Widest and Most Modern Banking
Network in Countryside Mindanao with
86* branches and 119* PeraAgad ATMs
*as of May 2012
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THE BIG NEWS
PHL to regain tuna fishing
ground by December 2012
By Lorie A. Cascaro
B
Y December, a minimum of 70,000 to
80,000 metric tons
that can go up to 150,000
metric tons will be added to
the volume of tuna fishing in
the Philippines following its
exclusive access to portions
of international fishing waters.
Director Asis Perez of
the Bureau of Fisheries and
Aquatic Resources (BFAR)
bared the good news Friday
after a successful negotiation
last March with the Regional
Fisheries Management Organization composed of 25
countries in the Asia Pacific.
Perez said the Philippines has a major tuna
spawning ground and that
fishing inside its territorial
waters will include catching
tuna’s larvae that will basi-
cally lead to the extinction of
tuna.
This explanation, he
added, convinced the international organization to
allow the country to fish in
the high-sea pocket 1, where
fishing by any country, including the Philippines, was
banned three years ago.
High-sea Pocket 1
“covers Palau, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea
and Indonesia, which
are areas closest to the
Philippines and where
local tuna fishers frequently operate.
He pointed out that the
closure of international waters did not only result in
economic crisis, but also social problems.
Since the closure, vessels had been crowding at
Philippine ports, mostly in
the Southern part, causing
conflicts between fishermen.
With 18 deaths due to
sporadic killings, Perez said
the situation was too much
to handle.
Since the closure of highsea Pocket 1 due to massive
extraction, the Philippines
lost 30% of its average tuna
catch of 300,000 to 350,000
metric tons a year.
Perez said although the
exclusive access was given
last March, actual fishing
will start by September until
December, and by that time
the Philippines is expected
to regain all its losses of the
last three years.
As long as Filipino vessels will abide with the rules
and policies imposed by the
Regional Fisheries Management Organization, he said,
the Philippines will continue
to have more tuna catches.
P3.8M farm-to-market
road finished in DavOr
By Jade C. Zaldivar
A
farm-to-market worth
P3.8 million was recently
completed
through the joint efforts of
the provincial government of
Davao Oriental and the 28th
Infantry Battalion (IB), 10th
Infantry Division of the Philippine Army.
The road benefits Baranggays Magsaysay and
New Visayas, Lupon, Davao
Oriental, said Col. Leopoldo
Imbang Jr., commander of
28th IB, through a statement.
The construction of the
farm-to-market road is part
of the national government
program Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA)
Project, as well as the Philippine Army’s Peace and
Development Outreach Program (PDOP) in Davao Oriental.
“We thank Governor
Cora Malanyaon for her continuous trust and confidence
by using the Army to
support her program in
the delivery of basic services
to the people in the Province
of
Davao Oriental”, said
commander of 701st Infantry Brigade Col. Rey Leonardo Guerrero, formerly commander of the Davao City
Task Force.
Imbang stressed that the
military ‘remains as the protector of the people.’
“We continued in our
efforts in building trust
and confidence of different
stakeholders in the pursuit
of peace and development in
localities,” he said.
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EDGEDAVAO
Medical wastes facility
re-applies with Council
M
EDICAL waste facility treatment provider
RAD Green Solutions
(RAD) will re-apply for special
use permit from the Davao City
Council.
Committee on Health chair
Bernard Al-ag told Edge Davao
that RAD had withdrawn their
application to the supposed
memorandum of agreement
(MOA) between them and the
city government wherein the
latter would agree to lease a
portion of the new sanitary
landfill where RAD will situate
their facilities.
The withdrawal is in line
with the discussions in the City
Council where it was stressed
that the sanitary landfill in
New Carmen, Tugbok District
is not owned by the local government.
The area where the sanitary landfill is situated belongs
to a private individual who lent
his property to the city government, thus the latter has
no right to lease the same to a
third party.
To avoid delays in legal
matters, RAD will instead situate their facilities outside of
the new sanitary landfill prop-
Fearless forecast
erty and form an agreement
with a different land owner.
But in order for RAD to
operate, it needs a special use
permit from the City Council.
“The revised committee
report was approved last Monday (June 18),” Al-ag said.
During council session, Alag said, the council passed (a)
a resolution ‘interposing no
objection’ to the RAD’s medical
waste facility proposal, and (b)
a resolution closing the item
regarding the proposed MOA
between RAD and the city government.
“This way hindi na nila
(RAD) kailangan magkaroon
ng MOA with the local government. They will provide their
services but they will be situated outside the new sanitary
landfill,” he said.
New technology
Pyroclave Medwaste Solution (Pyroclave), the invention
of RAD Green Solutions, has
the capability to reduce mass
and volume by 95% of all types
of medical wastes, including
body parts, chemical and pharmacological wastes.
It can also cause total disinfection with the end result of
turning waste into char.
Composed of Davao-scientists, RAD is led by chief scientist Roderick “Ricky” Dayot.
Dayot earlier said that
within a year since earning
nationwide acclaim, the new
technology of Pyroclave received offers from big ticket
companies in Britain, Dubai,
the Netherlands, and Singapore but which have been declined.
This is mainly because other known technologies in the
world which deal with medical waste, the autoclave and
microwave technologies, could
only reduce mass and volume
of medical waste by 85% without total disinfection.
As pyroclave does not
need a lot of space, ICT (Information, communication,
technology) Davao executive
vice president Erriberto Barriga foresees hospitals abroad
owning this facility.
“Talagang this could go
global. We’re looking forward
to having Davao City flagship
this invention, that before anywhere else in the world we had
this technology here,” he said
in an interview. [JADe ZALDIvAR]
nical Committee on Organic
Agriculture/Organic Agriculture Management Council
(TCOA-OAMC).
Deadline for the organic
farming mainstreaming plan is
end of this year.
“The most pressing questions include how to sustain
the production of high quality
organic products, and how to
make organic farm produce
more accessible to the pub-
lic,” said Go Organic network
member Ling Castro, of the Interface Development Interventions (Idis).
Castro said the project
aims to have organic farming communities in the city
wherein a sufficient supply of
affordable organic products
will be produced with the local government and the public
supporting their endeavors.
This includes the development and popularization of indigenous based organic farming techniques as well as the
integration of organic agriculture promotion in local school
curricula.
As a start, the TCOA-OAMC
has started identifying areas
which will become organic
farming zones as well as host
organic centers.
Meanwhile, Chinese investors have expressed their
interest in establishing organic
farms in the city.
Castro said CAO
head Leonardo Avila III had
confided to TCOA-OAMC in
May that these investors are
planning to set up vegetable
farms in the areas of Waan,
Mandug and Tigatto, all in this
city.
The investors are also
planning to establish a dried
mango processing plant.
Currently, Davao City has
more than 100 farmers practicing organic agriculture, excluding the indigenous upland
farmers who grow crops using
traditional techniques without
the use of synthetic fertilizers
and pesticides.
That number is expected
to increase with the implementation of the strategic plan
as it will pave the way for the
institutionalization of local
government support for organic farming, Castro said. [JADe
Mainstream organic farming
in Davao City within 5 years
T
HE city government aims
to mainstream organic
farming within years.
A strategic plan is currently being laid out at the
City Agriculturist Office
(CAO),according to environmentalist group Go Organic
Davao City (Go Organic) last
June 22.
The group is among those
invited by the local government to form part of the Tech-
FILM FESTIVAL. A mall-goer passes by the poster of the announcing the screening dates and the featured films in the National Film Festival that will be screened in the cinemas in the city. [KARLOS
MANLUPIG]
ZALDIvAR]
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87 construction sites
violate safety code
Stat Watch
1. Gross National Income
Growth Rate
(At Constant 2000 Prices)
3.5%
4th Qtr 2011
2. Gross Domestic Product
Growth Rate
(At Constant 2000 Prices)
3.7%
4th Qtr 2011
USD 3,342
Million
Nov 2011
USD 4,985
Million
Nov 2011
USD -1,643
Million
Nov 2011
USD -114
Million
Dec 2011
P4,442,355
Million
Nov 2011
3. Exports 1/
4. Imports 1/
5. Trade Balance
6. Balance of Payments 2/
7. Broad Money Liabilities
8. Interest Rates 4/
4.71%
Oct 2011
P128,745
Million
Nov 2011
P 4,898
Billion
Oct 2011
9. National Government
Revenues
10. National government
outstanding debt
11. Peso per US $ 5/
P 43.65
Dec 2011
12. Stocks Composite
Index 6/
3,999.7
Sept 2011
13. Consumer Price Index
2006=100
128.1
Jan 2012
14. Headline Inflation Rate
2006=100
3.9
Jan 2012
15. Core Inflation Rate
2006=100
3.4
Dec 2011
16. Visitor Arrivals
284,040
Sept 2011
17. Underemployment
Rate 7/
19.1%
Oct 2011
18. Unemployment Rate 7/
6.4%
Oct 2011
MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE
(January 2009 - December 2011)
Month
2011
2010
2009
Average
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
43.31
43.64
43.27
43.45
43.02
42.42
42.81
43.37
43.13
43.24
43.52
45.11
43.95
43.49
43.44
44.31
45.18
46.32
46.30
45.60
44.63
45.74
47.637
46.421
February
43.70
46.31
January
44.17
46.03
47.032
46.851
48.139
48.161
48.146
47.905
47.524
48.217
48.458
47.585
47.207
PROPERTY
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
By Edward Lactaoen
F the 599 establishments
that the Occupational
Safety and Health Center
of the Department of Labor and
Employment inspected since
March, 14.5% or 87 of the establishments have been found violating the Occupational Safety
and Health regulations.
Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) Regional
Director Joffrey M. Suyao, together with officials from the
Occupational Safety and Health
Center, said that out of the 87
establishments, which incurred
violations, 47 of them were construction industries. The most
common of their violations were
patapos na, ‘yun ang time na
maraming aksidente kasi nagmamadali na, kampante na.” (When
it’s almost done, that’s the time
that there are more accidents
because they start to rush, they
become less concerned.)
DOLE schedules these inspections with the establishments, but says that they prioritize those whom they’ve received
complaints about.
Suyao hopes to establish a
“culture of voluntary compliance” within establishments and
for the workers not to view the
DOLE inspections as a sort of policing activity.
DOLE will continue their inspection up to November of this
year.
TATE-owned
Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is stepping
up its assistance to the transport and logistics sector with
its flagship infrastructure and
transportation initiative, the
Connecting Rural and Urban
Intermodal Systems Efficiently (CRUISE) program.
DBP president & chief executive officer Francisco F. Del
Rosario, Jr. said that the bank
had approved 14 projects
amounting P1.4 billion under
the program, with projects
ranging from roads, packaging, transport and distribution facilities to cold chain
facilities.
The projects are located in
Isabela, Nueva Ecija, Bataan,
Batangas, Sorsogon. Cebu,
Negros Oriental, Negros Occi-
dental, Eastern Samar, Agusan
del Norte, Agusan del Sur, and
Surigao del Sur.
He also said that DBP evaluates 31 other projects totaling P2.6-billion, with nine
prospective accounts totaling
another P705-million.
Del Rosario said that DBP
continuously
coordinated
with concerned government
and private agencies and institutions in establishing inter-agency partnerships and
in identifying investment opportunities in the transport
sector, supply chain mainly in
post-harvest technologies and
facilities and logistics.
He said that the bank DBP
would also conduct a series of
road shows and seminars in
several regions in the second
half of the year to encourage
more investments for the program.
DBP has earmarked P22
billion for the CRUISE program which was launched this
year. The CRUISE program is
aligned with the Philippine
Development Plan 2011-2016
for infrastructure investments, which prioritizes the
creation of an integrated and
multimodal national transport and logistic system.
It also seeks to promote
rural-urban integration and
physical connectivity, promote decentralization and
reduce urban congestion, and
accelerate economic growth
particularly in high potential
growth sectors, and leverage
limited public resources for
infrastructure through PublicPrivate Partnerships.
UV Rheinland Philippines,
a third-party auditing firm
specializing in international standards accreditation, has
awarded the National Grid Corp.
of the Philippines (NGCP) its Integrated Management System
(IMS) certification.
NGCP, the country’s sole
transmission service provider
and power system operator,
was certified in three management systems: Quality Management System – ISO 9001: 2008,
Occupational Health & Safety
Management System – OHSAS
18001:2007 and Environmental Management System – ISO
14001: 2004.
The three management systems ensure consistency in implementing procedures and policies on the corporation’s technical and non-technical operations.
With the IMS certification,
power customers and the public
are assured that NGCP’s services
are delivered with utmost quality, with due consideration to the
environment and the safety of its
employees and stakeholders.
The certification, received
on June 19, covers the operation, maintenance, and expansion of the nationwide transmission network including support
functions performed by NGCP’s
Office of the President, Administration, Finance, Operation &
Maintenance, System Operation,
and Planning and Engineering
Groups.
Tristan Arwen G. Loveres,
TUV Rheiland Philippines chief
operating officer presented the
three certificates to NGCP president and chief executive Henry
T. Sy, Jr. at the awarding ceremo-
ny held at the NGCP Head Office
in Quezon City.
“As an IMS-certified company, NGCP moves one step closer
towards its goal of becoming the
strongest power transmission
facility in Southeast Asia.,” Sy
said after accepting the award
on behalf of management and
employees.
He also expressed his heartfelt gratitude to NGCP employees, “particularly the IMS Technical Working Group, for their
tireless cooperation and dedication in complying with the technical and documentary requirements.”
At the awarding ceremony,
NGCP chief technical officer Wen
Bo also hailed the certification as
a tool for “continuous improvement of business processes and
overall performance.”
DBP allots P1.4 B for infra
S
A
T least 25 rubber technicians from the Municipal Agriculture Office in
Makilala, North Cotabato will
undergo training on rubber
production at the town’s newly
opened Vocational and Technical Skills Training Center.
The training center on rubber production, considered the
country’s first, can accommodate at least 50 students, according to Makilala Mayor Rudy
Caoagdan.
The training starts on June
25, Caoagdan said.
Courses at the training center focus on rubber production
and are accredited by the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (Tesda) in Region 12, the mayor said.
Tesda-12 regional director Zios Ampoas said the center would provide appropriate
skills and technology that will
boost the rubber industry in
the province.
He said the plan to put up
the center was the idea of the
local government.
The project study started in
late 2010 and underwent series
of consultations with various
sectors.
During the study, he said,
the agency created training regulations for competencies that
must be acquired by a rubber
tapper.
Tesda employs experts from
the Department of Agriculture
and other institutions to teach
the needed skills.
Ampoas is hopeful the facility would produce skilled workers the industry needs to keep
it going.
“The opportunity is there.
We have limited products of
rubber. So there’s a need to assist our rubber industry by providing them the needed technology and skills,” he said.
NGCP is now IMS certified
T
D
as of august 2010
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rubber technicians
the lack of safety wear in the
construction sites, such as hardhats, safety shoes and harnesses
when working in elevated areas.
Other violations were the lack
of onsite nurses and doctors,
resulting in the issuance of a
stoppage order to the violating
construction industry.
In explaining how stoppage
orders affect the companies,
Suyao said that the companies
are still obliged to pay their
workers their wages, even if construction was halted, resulting in
loss of money without any progress on the building.
Suyao also said that workrelated accidents in construction
happen mostly during the finishing phases of construction. “’Pag
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DA inaugurate irrigation
projects in NoCot
EPARTMENT of Agriculture Secretay Proceso Alcala inaugurated two irrigation projects in Pikit, North
Cotabato during his visit to the
province last Tuesday, June 19.
The said irrigation projects
are the Panicupan Chrislam
Dam and the Nalapaan Stream
Check, which are implemented
by the Malitubog-Maridagao
(MalMar) Irrigation Project
Management Office.
According to the aforementioned office, the Panicupan
Chrislam Dam can service 430
hectares of farmlands benefiting 100 farmers.
On the other hand, the Nalapaan Stream Check can help
more than 50 farmers as it can
serve 100 hectares of farmland.
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THE ECONOMY
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
What is the future of oil?
C
RUDE oil kept
dropping after
hitting new lows
Thursday.
Analysts were less
optimistic and predicted further declines
in oil prices as supplies remained high
and demand tended
to weaken amid global
economic worries.
The
New
York
crude benchmark WTI
Thursday tumbled 4
percent to settle at
78.20 dollars a barrel.
It was the first time
for WTI to dip below
79 dollars a barrel
since Oct. 4, 2011.
Brent crude, the
European benchmark,
plunged 3.73 percent
and closed at 89.23
dollars, piercing the
psychologically important level of 90 dollars
a barrel and hitting
the lowest settlement
since December 2010.
“The market is under pressure and it is
looking for a bottom to
slide to,” said Gene McGillian, a broker with
Tradition Energy.
The big plunge
came after economic
data released Thursday pointed to a weakening global economy.
The U.S. initial jobless claims missed
market’s estimates.
Its less volatile
four-week
average
rose to the highest level of the year, showing
a sluggish job market.
Meanwhile,
the
Federal Reserve Bank
of Philadelphia’s general business conditions index surprisingly fell to minus 16.6
from minus 5.8 in May,
indicating a sharp contraction in the manufacture of Philadelphia
region.
And the U.S. existing home sales fell 1.5
percent in May compared with April.
Economic data from
Europe and China added to the weak tone.
The factory sector
both in Europe and
China kept shrinking
in June, causing worries about the world
oil demand.
Amid a worsening
debt crisis, eurozone’s
economic
recession
was looming, while
more and more investors were worrying
about a so-called hard
landing in China.
Traders said that
fears about the economy were making people “very leery.”
“People are just
killing everything on
global economic concern,” said Phil Flynn,
senior market analyst
at the Price Futures
Group in Chicago.
U.S. stocks experi-
enced the worst day in
three weeks, posting
the second biggest decline this year. Silver
plunged over 5 percent.
Analysts also pointed out that a lack of
aggressive
stimuli
from the Federal Reserve also contributed
to Thursday’s plunge
and offered no help to
restore market confidence.
The Fed decided on
Wednesday to extend
current
“Operation
Twist” into the end of
this year, disappointing the investors that
had expected QE3.
The most powerful central bank in the
world failed to play
the role of a rescuing
helicopter, triggering a
sell-off.
Commodities analyst Matthew Bradbard
said that with Thursday’s slides, the bears
have been back in the
crude markets.
He advised his clients to exit remaining longs and move to
cash.
And another key
bearish sign for crude
is the high U.S. and
global supplies.
“Supply is just overwhelming right now.
There’s not a lot of
reasons to be aggressive on the long side,”
2011 with close to 89.5
million kilos carried for
the full year.
The airline increased
domestic capacity in Q1
2012, with the arrival
of one more brand-new
Airbus A320 aircraft last
January. At present, CEB
operates 52 routes to 32
domestic
destinations,
the most extensive network in the Philippines.
Network expansion
plans include the arrival
of three more Airbus
A320 aircraft in the 2nd
half of 2012, as well as
the launch of four times
weekly Davao-Kalibo and
Davao-Puerto Princesa
flights.
“CEB currently services more than 2,000
accounts,
tailor-fitting
cargo products to our clients’ domestic and international cargo needs. This
includes express cargo
service, seamless transshipment and 16 interline
partnerships for world-
wide reach,” Iyog added.
To inquire more about
CEB cargo, forwarders
and shippers can call 2905321 or 22 or visit www.
cebupacificaircargo.com.
CEB currently operates 10 Airbus A319, 20
Airbus A320 and 8 ATR72 500 aircraft. Its fleet of
38 aircraft – with an average age of 3.6 years – is
the largest aircraft fleet in
the Philippines. Between
2012 and 2021, Cebu Pacific will take delivery of
22 more Airbus A320 and
30 Airbus A321neo aircraft orders. It is slated to
begin long-haul services
in the 3rd quarter of 2013.
About Cebu Air Inc.
(PSE: CEB)
Cebu Air Inc. is the
largest carrier in the Philippine air transportation
industry, offering its lowcost services to more destinations and routes with
higher flight frequency
within the Philippines
than any other airline.
Cebu Pacific is
top cargo carrier
T
HE
Philippines’
largest national flag
carrier, Cebu Pacific
(PSE:CEB)
transported
more domestic cargo
than other airlines in the
1st quarter (Q1) of 2012,
according to recently released Civil Aeronautics
Board data.
CEB carried 22.1 million kilograms in cargo in
Q1, besting the combined
cargo loads carried by
both Philippine Airlines
and Airphil Express.
“We captured 48% of
the domestic cargo market in Q1. This highlights
Cebu Pacific’s extensive
domestic network. With
multiple daily flights to
most key cities in the Philippines, cargo forwarders
and shippers trust CEB to
bring their valuable cargo
in the soonest possible
time,” said CEB VP for
Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog.
CEB also led the domestic cargo market in
said Stephen Schork,
editor of the Schork
Report.
The U.S. crude inventories added another 2.9 million barrels last week, hitting
the highest level since
1990.
Meanwhile,
the
supplies in the Middle
East, especially Saudi
Arabia -- the world’s
biggest oil exporter -also remained record
high.
At the latest OPEC
meeting, the oil cartel decided to keep
the output targets unchanged for the rest
of this year, showing
no intention to reduce
production.
Schork also predicted the crude has
entered a new bear
market and could go
further lower.
“It is not clear
where the bottom is,”
said Raymond Carbone, president of oil
brokerage Paramount
Options, adding the
only bullish reason for
crude was that Israel
could attack Iran.
“After
breaking
through 80 dollars, the
next level will be 75
dollars.” (XINhUA)
EDGEDAVAO
American Chamber commends
country’s fiscal discipline
A
MERICAN
representatives
of
various
American Chambers of Commerce (AmCham) in the
Asia-Pacific, including
those from the Philippines, gathered at the
Philippine embassy in
Washington recently for
a briefing on the latest
economic inroads of the
Philippines.
The
delegations
were members of the
Asia-Pacific Council of
American Chambers of
Commerce
(APCAC),
who came together for
a seminar on “2012 APCAC Washington Doorknock” in D.C.
The APCAC delegations also represented
Bangladesh, Cambodia,
Japan, Korea, Thailand,
and Vietnam, and was
headed by Tom Clark,
GE Capital (Asia) vice
president.
Clark said that the
Philippine
government’s successful economic policies, especially in terms of fiscal discipline and consolidation. “The Philippines’
case is a good model to
follow,” he said.
Embassy officers Ariel R. Peñaranda and Angelito Nayan briefed the
guests about the Philippine economy and the
global economic outlook, according to the
Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA).
Peñaranda said Philippine–American bilateral relations had been
further
strengthened
with the successful official visit of President
Benigno S. Aquino III to
the United States two
weeks ago.
In his presentation,
Nayan showcased the
Philippines’
resilient
economy and the many
trade and investment
opportunities in the
country and reiterated
the Aquino administration’s robust economic
policies and good governance agenda.
APCAC was founded
in 1968 as a way for the
28 American Chambers
(AmChams) of Commerce in the Asia-Pacific region to address issues of mutual concern
and share best practices. APCAC AmChams
represent the growing
interests of over 50,000
executives and over
10,000 businesses in
the region.
DFA said that APCAC’s membership encompasses trade volumes in excess of US$
400 billion and foreign
direct
investments
(FDI) of nearly US 300
billion. APCAC’s mission
is to improve the competitiveness of American business in the
Asia-Pacific region.
EDGEDAVAO
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT
7
The sharks’ speed might be limited by the energy costs of
swimming in near-freezing water.
Slowest sharks
hunts sleeping prey
D
ATA-logging tags revealed
that Greenland sharks
“cruise” at 0.34m per second - less than 1mph.
The study showed that, even
when the languid fish embarks on
a burst of speed in order to hunt,
it is far too slow to catch a swimming seal.
Since the species is known to
eat seals, the scientists think it
probably “sneaks up on them” as
they sleep under the water.
The Greenland shark was already known to be the world’s
slowest swimming shark, but its
sluggishness surprised the scientists.
Yuuki Watanabe from the National Institute of Polar Research
in Tokyo, who took part in the
study, said that, when you account
for the size of its body, it is the
slowest fish in the ocean.
Previous research had revealed seal remains in the stomachs of the sharks.
“It was hard to understand,”
he told BBC Nature, “because [it
would seem] impossible for them
to catch fast-swimming seals.”
The researcher joined Dr Kit
Kovacs and Dr Christian Lydersen
from the Norwegian Polar Institute, to tag Greenland sharks in
the waters off Svarlbard.
The study, published in the
Journal of Experimental Marine
Biology and Ecology, was the latest part of an ongoing mission by
the Norwegian researchers to find
out what has been killing the harbour seals off Svarlbard’s coast.
It was thought that Greenland
sharks simply fed on the carcasses
of dead seals on the seafloor, but
the team recently discovered evidence that they were taking live
seals.
The tagging study found that,
while seals swim at about 1m
per second (2mph/3km/h), the
sharks’ maximum bursts of speed
reached only 0.7m per second - far
too slow to catch a swimming seal.
“The [tags also] told us how
fast the shark moves its tail,” said
Dr Watanabe.
It takes seven seconds for a
single full tail sweep that propels
the shark forwards.
The scientists also recorded
the temperature of the water that
the fish were swimming in, which
were an icy average of 2C (36F).
The energy cost of regulating
their body temperature in the almost freezing depths could be the
reason for the sharks’ very limited
speed.
These Arctic fish live further
north than any other shark species.
In this frozen habitat, the researchers explained in their paper: “Arctic seals sleep in water to
avoid predation by polar bears.
“This may leave them vulnerable to the cryptic slow-swimming
predators.”
Vincent Gallucci, a shark expert from the University of Washington, US, explained that Greenland sharks may not need “to get
100% of its mouth onto its prey”
in order to eat it.
“It can get an assist from a
sucking action as part of its feeding process,” he told BBC Nature.
“This does make it a bit easier
for a lie in wait ambush predator
to consume prey that pass near its
mouth.”
In the future, the scientists
who embarked on this study hope
to use underwater cameras, in order to record what could be the
world’s slowest chase scene.
Ali Hood from the Shark Trust
pointed out that, historically,
Greenland sharks were targeted
for oil and meat.
“It’s a long-lived species considered highly vulnerable to fishing pressure,” she told BBC Nature. “[We] welcome further research to illuminate the behaviour
of this elusive species.”
Researchers have measured the swimming speed of the ocean’s slowest shark.
That the fastest shark is thought
to be the shortfin mako? The species has been recorded in excess
of 20mph and can chase down
some faster bony fish, such as
tuna.
That the world’s largest shark is
the whale shark which can grow
to over 13m long? This huge filter-feeder shark sifts zooplankton from the water.
That the smallest shark is the
dwarf lantern shark? This deepwater species is found in the Caribbean Sea and reaches a maximum length of just 21cm.
That the shark with the largest
teeth relative to its size is the
largetooth cookiecutter? At only
42cm in length, this species has
17-19 rows of large lower teeth
and feeds by cutting circular
pieces of flesh from larger marine mammals, fish and other
sharks. It has even caused problems for submarines.
8
VANTAGE POINTS
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
EDGEDAVAO
The three questions
of global importance
AnAlysis
T
EDITORIALS
The pledge
T
HE PLEDGE of the Philippine government to lend $ 1billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of
its efforts to bail out tumbling economies in
Europe has drawn flak from militants.
Predictably, the Kilusang Mayo Uno argues
that the huge amount should be spent instead
for Filipinos suffering poverty, unemployment,
malnutrition and hunger.
It is easy to agree with critics when one does
not consider the facts. First off, the amount
will come from the country’s international reserves. Second, it is a loan to the IMF, not a donation, and would logically earn interests.
That the IMF has asked the Philippines to
End of madness
A
FTER earning so much flak and condemnation for his highly controversial proposal, Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond
Palatino withdrew his bill seeking to ban religious rites and icons in government offices and
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help is a glaring proof that the country is no
longer a basket case which was needing assistance from all comers for the longest time.
Besides, when we help floundering European economies, we are in reality also helping ourselves. When their economies collapse
we will not be spared by the adverse effects
considering that the Philippines is a trading
partner to many of them. If they resuscitate,
they’ll be able to continue giving jobs to our
overseas Filipino workers and doing business
with us.
The pledge will tremendously enhance
our national image and credit standing in the
community of nations. Mabuhay ang Pilipino!
In withdrawing House Bill No. 6330, Palatino apologized for the hurt his bill might have
caused, especially to the religious.
We hope that the Kabataan will now realize
that it’s not advisable to tinker with harmless
and time-honored cultural practices in their future quest for cute legislative proposals.
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OLSTOY may have been right about families – “All happy families are alike; each
unhappy family is unhappy in its own
way” – but the opposite of his famous first line
is true when it comes to countries: The world’s
disparate unhappy nations are very much alike
when it comes to the causes of their unhappiness.
That’s not immediately apparent – austerity-strangled Greece, cheap-money America and military-ruled Egypt are all exhibiting
quite different symptoms. But it is no accident
that so many of the world’s economies are
sputtering at the same time, or that so many
people around the globe are angry.
One reason for the synchronized gloom,
of course, is the synchronization of the global
economy. But the world is suffering from more
than a shared summer cold. Rather, we are all,
both together and apart, trying to figure out
three big questions. Our answers to them will
shape the 21st century.
The first is how nation-states fit into a globalized world economy. Different countries are
wrestling with different versions of this problem. Small states with their own currencies and
open trade policies have just endured a version
of the Asian crisis of 1998, and they have come
to similar conclusions – survival requires a fortresslike national balance sheet and export-led
growth. That’s why Baltic leaders, these days,
sound an awful lot like Southeast Asian ones.
The rub, as Lawrence H. Summers, the
former U.S. Treasury secretary, likes to point
out, is that there are no Martians. Export-led
growth can’t work as a policy for the whole
world: Someone needs to be the net importer.
The truth of this observation is being experienced very painfully today by south Europeans, whose economies are constrained not
only by inflexible labor markets – which are
being reformed – but also by a currency union
that has lifted north European exporters, particularly Germans, and weakened everyone
else. And so the euro, which was attractive to
smaller European states in part as a shelter
from global economic storms like the Asian
tsunami of 1998, turns out to be a perilous haven indeed.
An effective global economy will require
more than a World Trade Organization and
free and fair commerce between companies.
What shapes trade most of all is currencies,
and those are guided by national policies on
exports, credit and government surpluses or
deficits. If we want a global economy – and
most of us seem to – we need to devise a way
for the currencies of the world to work, and to
work together. Call it the 21st century’s Bretton
Woods moment.
The second question is even knottier. Global capitalism is the best economic system humanity has devised so far: Worldwide growth
in the three decades before the financial crisis
was astonishing – delivering, most strikingly, a
huge rise in incomes to poor people in countries like India and China that, just a generation
ago, development economists had all but given
up on. Latin America has benefited, too, and
even Africa, the perpetual bridesmaid, seems
to be on the rise.
But 21st-century capitalism is failing at one
very important task – delivering jobs and rising
incomes to the middle class in rich countries.
U.S. families are no better off today than they
were in 1992. For ordinary Americans, it is as
if the post-Cold War windfall and the technology boom never happened. Much of Europe is
in the same fix, only worse, with even higher
unemployment rates and a less forgiving mortgage default system. From today’s vantage
point, the rise of European tigers like Iceland,
Ireland and Spain feels like a mirage.
A popular meme in Western societies at
the moment is to lament the mulish unwillingness of democratic majorities to support
sober, centrist political leaders. Much of this
refusal to follow the erstwhile wise men can
surely be traced to the failure of the policies of
the past few decades to deliver for the middle
class.
EDGEDAVAO
H
E A L T H
ALERT
–
While
the
Greater Manila area
and the rest of Luzon have been inundated by heavy
rains and thunderstorms in the past
few days because of
Typhoon Ondoy and
Butsoy, Davao City and the entire Mindanao
Island experienced exactly the opposite.
The dry season is still here and as usual
produced a bumper crop of mosquitoes,
making for a very buggy and dreary period.
The greatest threat at this stage comes from
a killer fever. First, a high fever develops suddenly. The muscles and joints ache, and a
rash appears on the chest and arms. Chances
are anyone with such symptoms is suffering
from dengue fever.
The bad news: ailment caused by mosquito bites is a fact of life, and as parents of
young children, notably those who are studying, will tell you that the best way to treat
them is to observe precautionary measures.
The country is witnessing a startling upsurge in dengue cases this year. More than
32,000 people are reported to be infected in
the middle of this year compared to 31,000
in the same period last year, and about 490
have died so far.
With at least 2,000 cases in Davao City,
health authorities may have to deal with the
rising number of patients, mostly children.
In the first three months alone, dengue has
claimed several lives and infected a large
T
HE threeday
UN
Conference on Sustainable
Development, held in the
Brazilian capital
Rio de Janeiro,
officially began
on Wednesday,
June 20, but observers said the serious business was
already concluded the day before. June
21 and 22 will just be speeches by heads
of national delegations that won’t make
a dent on what has been agreed upon before the opening session.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, in his opening address, warned that progress on
the issue tackled at the conference has
been slow. He was being too soft in his
criticism, if it can be called as such. With
a water-down agreement which is expected to be signed off without a hitch
by heads of government or ministers,
the Rio+20 talks may well be considered
an affirmation of the general wish to betray the spirit of the Earth Summit held
20 years ago in the same city.
It may be too much to expect too
much for the environment from a political gathering, but non-state participants
and observers cannot also be faulted for
pinning some hopes on it. Environment
groups in particular can expound on the
science of their cause to underscore the
urgency of taking drastic actions now on
climate change. At the same time how-
Monkey Business
VANTAGE POINTS
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
Beware of the killer fever
number of people. And so far there is no definite treatment for the virus, which is carried
by the Aedes mosquito, and drugs can only
alleviate the symptoms, according to a health
alert issued by scientists and health experts.
All doctors can do is give patients plenty
of rest and fluids to help them fight the virus. Health experts noted that most people
recover within five days and are out of danger. However, another threat comes from
re-infection. It is called hemorrhagic fever
– a much more dangerous form of similar
initial symptoms that requires urgent medical attention. This usually occurs in dengue
victims who are infected by one of the four
strains of virus. Hemorrhagic fever continues
with bleeding under the skin or even internally, doctors say.
Taking precautions against mosquito
bites is all the more important because scientists have yet to come up with a vaccine or
drugs for either strain. Unlike other mosquitoes, the Aedes variety is most active during
the day, especially in the early morning and
late afternoon when many people let their
guard down. Exceptional care must be taken
to protect infected people from being bitten
again. While the virus cannot be passed directly between humans, uninfected mosquitoes can become carriers when they take in
the blood of dengue sufferers.
And now some pieces of good news although not necessarily vital: whether you
are concerned about dengue, malaria or
just want to enjoy the outdoors bite-free,
there are a variety of products that fight
mosquitoes. There are now traps that emit
carbon dioxide, and coils, candles, insectrepellent sprays and creams. To protect the
entire school yard from mosquitoes there is a
promising option used by health authorities
– fogging operation.
To date, in Davao City for example, the
most common sickness caused by Aedes
mosquitoes is dengue. Results in Davao City
and its neighboring provinces have shown
how dengue affected the health of a lot of
people, specifically children. The death of
several patients in different public and private medical facilities would later prove to be
related to dengue after many of them were
tested positive of the virus carried by Aedes
mosquitoes.
In the past few months, health authorities in the region, Davao City in particular,
have investigated possible dengue outbreaks
in many remote areas – that were all later
determined to be dengue-related cases. The
pressure is on health authorities and other
concerned government agencies to find a
quick, reliable method to protect the public
from getting afflicted with the deadly virus.
In Davao City, the challenge for officials will
be to maintain a sufficient level of information dissemination campaign to inform the
public about the dangers of dengue, while
ensuring that all surroundings should always
remain clean to avoid becoming breeding
grounds of mosquitoes. The concern over the
deadly dengue virus might be a test of what
to expect this coming rainy season.
Betrayal in Rio
ever they are aware that in the end it is
the governments that decide. And when
politics prevails over science, frustration
begins – or worsens.
One source of frustration is the absence of a commitment to end fossil fuel
subsidies. The text of the agreement
simply reaffirms previous commitments
to phase them out if they are “harmful
and inefficient,” without setting a date,
according to a report by the BBC.
In addition, the agreement does not
offer specific solutions to unsustainable
production and consumption. It simply
makes use of open-ended phrases like
“urgent action” but gives no details and
timeframe.
With these, it is easy to see why critics said that Rio+20 has failed to achieve
its purpose of promoting “green economy” as a solution to global economic
woes and ecological problems.
Green economy, according to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP),
means “improved human well-being and
social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological
scarcities.” In specific terms, it means a
low-carbon, resource-efficient, and aims
towards eradicating poverty and improving the conservation of the ecological commons, the UNEP adds.
But as Rio+20 has shown the green
economy concept has been compromised by the context in which it seeks to
thrive. It relies on market forces as dem-
onstrated in the system that allows for
so-called carbon credits to be treated as
a commodity that can either be bought
or sold. No less than the UN, through
its Framework Convention on Climate
Change, has given license to the trading
of carbon emissions.
As a result of this market-based approach, which I explained in yesterday’s
column (The carbon conspiracy), there
has been no actual reduction in carbon
emissions. Worse, the system may even
lead to greater pollution of the atmosphere by allowing developed countries
to make use of the Clean Development
Mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol.
The green economy concept therefore is nothing more than a reinvention
of the system that has pushed the environment to where it is now. It treats nature and people as commodities that can
be harnessed for profit. In reality, it does
not a way out of ecological destruction;
rather, it creates more opportunities for
the rich countries to strengthen their
hold on the economies and resources of
the developing states.
More carbon dioxide has brought
and will continue to bring incalculable
suffering to millions of ordinary people.
But for those who control the growing
market in emissions trading, nature has
never been as generous. [MindaViews
is the opinion section of MindaNews. H.
Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at hmcmordeno@gmail.com.]
9
It’s the son’s turn
to be a father
speciAl FeAture
By honor BlanCo CaBie
D
ONG, a 29-year-old father, was
looking at the high power and water bills just in when his two sons,
4 and 2 years old, chased each other one
evening after dinner at the receiving room.
The room, where the round dining
table and glass top table were, looked like
some swathe of typhoon destruction as
they stepped on the pillows fronting the
big TV screen.
Distracted by his sons’ behavior, he
raised his lungs against them, calling them
by their first names and let them stand beside each other facing the closed wooden
door that leads to the street fronting their
two-story house.
“You stay there until I tell you to abandon your posts,” he shouted, still fuming
with anger, like some military commander.
The two little boys, silenced by their
father’s syllables, stood, unmoving where
they were for minutes, their chests rolling
like snare drums.
The scenario was far off the image he
was in more than 25 years ago, when his
father, firm but always mild-mannered
when he talked with his three children,
individually or collectively, when he was
raising them up.
When Dong, the age of his sons, misbehaved in the eyes of his parents, but
particularly his father, his old man would
grab his shoulder or his waistline, let him
sit on his lap and explain why that should
not have been done and why therefore he
was being whipped.
Parenting experts suggest several tips
in rearing an offspring – that the younger
generation may eventually become useful
and productive units of society.
First, having time for the offspring,
however busy the parent may well be and
however tight the office schedule during
the week has been and will be in the next.
It is, they say, in this type of bonding
that the offspring are raised to be polite
and well behaved. After all, what they are
outside will be seen in the lessons they
have learned in the home.
The basic manners they learn at
home, including the choice of television
programs they are allowed to watch, will
define them when the offspring start circulating with other members of their age
group level in school.
Second, they should always have the
sincere capacity to say “please” and “thank
you.”
The offspring, in any activity they may
be involved in, must always have the capacity to say “please” when they want
something, however it may seem inconsequential, or when they are seeking permission to play, for instance, in the garden.
Saying “please” and “thank you” may
well be reinforced during meals, when one
plate is needed and is given – passing from
one hand to the other in one of the closest
family encounters at home.
When the offspring start joining their
elders at the table, this is, according to experts, just the right opportunity to teach
them basic rules that will define them in
their later years.
A good part of this training is giving
the children the capacity to say “I’m sorry”
or “excuse me” when they may interrupt
someone who has the floor or when they
bump without intention a person on their
path.
When they go on a date with their elders, either at a department store or any
affordable restaurant nearby, the offspring
must learn to enjoy saying “please” and
“thank you.”
Parents should not baby-talk their
children, according to experts of the
years beyond the crib, suggesting that
talking with the offspring in the manner the elder talks with fellow adults
will give the offspring the space to think
he is treated like an adult as well. [PNA]
10
SUBURBIA
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
EDGEDAVAO
Hedcor lessens amount
of trash in Talomo River
H
EDCOR,
the
largest developer of run-ofriver hydropower plants,
prevented 412 tons (373,
332 kilograms) of trash
flowing into Talomo River in the whole year of
2011 to first quarter of
2012 through a trash rack
(composed of a steel grate
with narrow gaps) installed as one of the components of a hydropower
plant.
Eight trash racks are
installed within the facilities of the five run-ofriver Talomo Hydropower
Plants to prevent trash
and debris entering the
hydropower system. The
turbines are designed
solely for water to run.
Any trash that enters to
the machine can hamper
it and might cause the
power generation to stop.
“Preventing garbage
to get into our run-ofriver hydropower facilities will secure the whole
process of operations”,
Hedcor Vice President
for Mindanao Operations
Engr. Rolando Pacquiao
said. “Aside from securing our facilities, abiding
strictly to RA 9275 and
DAO 2005-10 or Clean
Water Act is also our top
concern”, Pacquiao added.
The RA 9275 or the
Philippine Clean Water
Act of 2004 provides a
clear policy on water pollution control. Hedcor
contracted garbage hauler to regularly ensure the
proper segregation or disposal of the hauled trash
to the sanitary landfill
and even recycled some,
as one way of administering quality water management.
“After we use the diverted water to run our
turbines in Talomo plants,
the water will then be returned to river in a cleaner state, zero waste,” Pacquaio said.
The Talomo River
runs the 5 mini-hydropower plants of Hedcor
with a total capacity of
4.47 megawatts. These
are the first and oldest plants operated and
managed by Hedcor since
1978.
77 ARMM towns to benefit
from potable water projects
S
OME 77 municipalities in the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM) will benefit from
potable water projects
set to be implemented by
the Aquino administration under the region’s
Transition
Investment
Plan.
President Benigno S.
Aquino III assured this
on Wednesday during
the gathering of the local government units of
ARMM held in Davao City
where officials discussed
on local governance and
reforms in the region.
Aquino said initial assessment has been made
on the five towns in Basilan, 21 in Lanao del Sur,
34 in Maguindanao, eight
in Sulu and nine in TawiTawi as recipients of the
projects.
“Ito na nga po ang
papatid sa uhaw ng mga
komunidad na matagal
nang natuyuan ng lalamunan,” he stated in his
keynote speech during
the ARMM Convention on
Local Governance.
The potable water
projects are part of the
approved P8.59 billion
fund which the President
committed to fund various projects apart from
the potable water need
placed under the Transition Investment Plan
of ARMM being implemented toward the next
ARMM election.
Aquino said the fund
also aims to address the
needs for health infrastructure, core shelter
assistance for families
caught in the middle
of the political conflict,
farm-to-market
roads,
repair and rehabilitation
of roads and bridges and
energization of remote
areas.
“Makakaasa po kayong nasa likod ninyo ang
ating
administrasyon,
handang alalayan kayo
sa inyong pangangailangan,” he assured the
ARMM mayors and governors.
“Binigyan po tayo ng
pagkakataon upang patunayan sa mga taga-ARMM
na ang mabuting pamamahala ay nagbubunsod
ng tunay na pagginhawa,”
Aquino said.
The President urged
the ARMM people not to
waste this good opportunity, saying “Huwag nating ipagpabukas pa ang
kaya nating isakatuparan
ngayon para sa lalo pa
nating pag-usad,” he said.
[PIA 11/CARINA L. CAyON]
Apart from the operations’ effort in preventing
trash going into the river,
Hedcor conducts a regular Eco-market day in its
host communities. The
Eco-market day serves as
a venue for the residents
to properly segregate
waste and sell it to Hedcor. Hedcor then delivers
it to the contracted buy
back centers in the city.
Hedcor is a whollyowned subsidiary of
AboitizPower – the holding company for the
Aboitiz Group’s investments in power generation, distribution, retail
and power services. It is a
major producer of Cleanergy, its brand for clean
and renewable energy
in the Philippines with
several hydroelectric and
geothermal assets in its
generation portfolio and
also has non-renewable
power plants located
across the country. The
company owns distribution utilities that operate
in high-growth areas in
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
TRASH UNCLOGGED. Trash rack installed in the system of Talomo Hydropower Plant unclogs domestic
wastes from the Talomo River. It secures a smooth flow of water before water enters the hydropower turbines.
Republic of the Philippines
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
11TH JUDICIAL REGION
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT
DAVAO CITY
NICKEL COLLECTION LENDING INVESTOR,INC.
REPRESENTED BY MARITESS V. SIANGCO
Mortgagee,
versus –
BPI FAMILY SAVINGS BANK, INC.,
Mortgagee,
EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,417-12
PRINCESITA L. COMISO,
Mortgagor/s.
NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the
above-mentioned mortgagee against PRINCESITA L. COMISO with address at Blk. 14, Lot
44, Phase 29 85 A Rosa St. La Verna Hills, Brgy. Pampanga, Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as of date of the petition amounted to FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY
FIVE SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE PESOS AND 55/100 (577,485.55)
Philippine Currency, exclusive of penalties,past due interest ,and plus expenses of foreclosure and attorney’s fee representing 25% of the total obligation due ; the undersigned
Sheriff of the Regional Trial Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 12, 2012 at
10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland, Davao City,
to the highest bidder for CASH and/or Manager’s Check and in Philippine Currency, the following real property/ies mentioned and described below together with all the improvements found thereon , to wit:
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-455289
“ A parcel of land of the consolidation-subdivision project (lot 44, Blk. 14, of the consolidation-subdivision plan Pcs-112402-001422,xxx) situated in Barangay of Pampanga;
City of Davao; Island of Mindanao. xxx Containing an area of ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE
(135) SQUARE METERS, more or less.”And
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-453137
“ A parcel of land (Lot 2-A, Psd-11-103533) being a portion of lot 2, Psd-11-042139,
situated in the Barrio of Matina, City of Davao, Island of Mindanao.xxx Containing an area
of EIGHTY EIGHT (88) SQUARE, more or less.”
All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time
and date
In the event that the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be
held on August 9, 2012 without further notice.
Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the titles of
the herein-above described real property/ies and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
Davao City, Philippines, June 6, 2012
FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF:
(SGD) TERESITA M. CEBALLOS
Sheriff IV
NOTED BY:
ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR.
Clerk of Court VI
Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff
(Edge 6/18,25,7/2
Republic of the Philippines
REGIONAL TRIAL COURT
11TH JUDICIAL REGION
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT
DAVAO CITY
versus –
EJF-REM CASE NO. 13,395-12
FELICISIMA O. HILAY AND VICENTE LEONILO R. HILAY,
Mortgagor/s.
NOTICE OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL SALE
Upon extra-judicial petition for sale under Act 3135, as amended, filed by the
above-mentioned mortgagee against Felicisima O. Hilay andVicente Leonilo R. Hilay with
postal address at 404 Nidea St., Barrio Obrero, Davao City, to satisfy the mortgage indebtedness which as March 12, 2012, the unpaid indebtedness of the mortgagor, which is to
be satisfied out of the proceeds of the foreclosure sale, consists of the total outstanding
obligation in the amount of Php 492,030.83, Philippine Currency, plus other interest and
charges thereon from March 12, 2012 up to the date of foreclosure sale, cost of publication
of the notice of sale, expenses of the foreclosure proceedings, an addition sum equivalent
to fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount due as and for attorney’s fees and additional
sum equivalent to fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount due as and for liquidated
damages and other expenses allowed by law; the undersigned Sheriff of the Regional Trial
Court, Davao City, will sell at public auction on July 5, 2012 at 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the main entrance of Hall of Justice, Ecoland, Davao City, to the highest bidder for
CASH and/or Manager’s Check and in Philippine Currency, the real property with all its
improvements found thereon particularly described below, to wit:
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-321460
A parcel of land (lot 2, Blk. 23, of the conso-subd. Plan (LRC) Pcs-10016,xxx) situated in Barrio of Ma-a; City of Davao; Island of Mindanao. xxx Containing an area of THREE
HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE (333) SQUARE METERS, more or less.”
date
All sealed bids must be submitted to the undersigned on the above-stated time and
In the event that the public auction should not take place on the said date, it shall be
held on August 2, 2012 without further notice.
Prospective buyers are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the condition of
the unit and encumbrances thereon, if any there be.
Davao City, Philippines, May 30, 2012
NOTED BY:
ATTY. EDIPOLO P. SARABIA, JR.
Clerk of Court VI
Ex-Officio Provincial Sheriff
(Edge 6/18,25,7/2)
FOR THE EX-OFFICIO SHERIFF:
(SGD) SERGIO LEONARDO J. TUPAS
Sheriff IV
EDGEDAVAO
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
Pro-poor programs spur community
participation, social involvement
P
ROGRAM participants
or beneficiaries of government pro-poor initiatives have demonstrated
improved involvement in
community events and even
expressed enhanced relations with other community
members.
Moreover, participation in community projects
showed a marked increase in
self-esteem and family unity
among project beneficiaries.
Some beneficiaries have
even surpassed program
expectations realizing and
proving to all that they can
do more if they just put their
mind and heart into it. When
people feel trusted and respected, they are happy and
they tend to give more of
themselves, motivated to
achieve more.
Learning to grow
“Tungod sa kagamay sa
akong grado, naningkamot
gyud ko makatoon sa seminar
atubang sa mga kadagkoan.
Nadungagan ang akong kahibalo pinaagi sa seminar.
Motambong ko kon dunay
ipatawag nga meeting (The
fact that I am a mere elementary graduate, I willed myself to learn during seminars
which really helped me. Also
I attend meetings),” shares
Susan Campa, 36, of Palma
Gil, Talaingod. A mother of
three, Susan is a barangay
health worker (BHW). She
is also president of Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran Association (SKA) , a
parent leader of Pantawid
Pamilya while her community is a recipient of KALAHICIDSS potable water system.
Felix Sotto of Mabuhay,
Laak, stressed, “Kinahanglan
ang pagsalig sa kaugalingon
aron makapadayon. Kon walay disiplina, dili mkapadayon (We need self-confidence
to advance. Without discipline, we cannot move forward).” Felix, 60, is a farmer,
member of SKA and active in
his church.
For Marites Reambonanza of Magdum, Tagum City,
her involvement in DSWD’s
SKA changed her life socially and economically.
“Daghan mi’g nakat-onan ug
hinay-hinay pud na-develop
among self-confidence. Sa
among grupo, maminaw mi
sa matag usa aron magkasabot. Kon dunay diperensya,
mag-istorya ug motuman
pud sa sabot (We learned a
lot and gradually developed
our self-confidence. We listen to each other and try to
patch up whatever our differences).”
Started in December
1996, Magdum SKA has
evolved from a mere livelihood group into an active
community partner that
engages in lending, catering and meat processing.
Marites serves as treasurer
of Magdum SKA which regularly participates in and supports barangay affairs.
Marites said the capability building opportunities
helped members of Magdum SKA to be proactive.
Moreover, they have learned
project management and
simple accounting, and they
have become creative in
their management style and
in formulating organization
policies.
Hipolito Molo heads the
Garments Services Cooperative of Baguio District, Calinan, Davao City. His group
just completed the Module
One Basic Business Training
conducted by the Philippine
Social Enterprise Network
(PhilSEN) through DSWD.
He is positive his groups
will sustain its good record
as a SKA whose members
have developed socially and
economically with their garments and plastic bag production ventures.
“Anam-anam naabri ang
huna-huna. Nahagit ko nga
kahibalo diay ko (Gradually
my mind broadened. I was
amazed of my ability),” recounts Joan Emely Duran,
28, and a high school graduate from Brgy. Amorcruz,
Laak. Joan also receives subsidy from Pantawid Pamilya.
Janebeth Engalan, SKA
treasurer also of Amorcruz,
Laak and secretary of Pantawid shared, “Nadugangan
ang akong kahibalo. Kon
wala ko kaapil sa SKA, wala
ko kahibalo pag-process sa
banko (I’ve learned more.
Had I not joined SKA, I
wouldn’t have known how to
transact in a bank).”
For Agnes Veñalon,
president of SKMS SEA Ka-
bayan, Matina, Davao City,
“Sa una, wala gayod mi pagpakabana. Nakalihok kami sa
among kaugalingong negosyo tungod sa DSWD. Nahimamat namo ang mga tawo
nga wala pa namo mailhan.
Karon kahibalo na mi mosayaw, kanta, mo-apil og sports
activities ug mo-socialize
(We were indifferent at first.
Then DSWD taught us basic
business skills. We met new
people and learned to dance,
sing, join sports activities
and socialize).”
Way of life
For most of the recipients, their involvement in
government programs and
even in non-government initiatives has developed them
to really stand up and speak
for themselves. Monthly or
weekly meetings are a treat
they come to look forward to
and for some, these events
have become a way of life.
“Daghan
makat-onan
sa kada bulan nga FDS (I’ve
learned so much from the
monthly FDS –Family Development Session of Pantawid
Pamilya),” admits Conchita
Lagoy, 51. Conchita is a BHW,
secretary to SKA Sto. Nino
in Talaingod and a Pantawid
parent leader.
Maribeth Tibay, 31, from
Salawao, Talaingod recounts,
“Ang eskwelahan napuno og
tawo ug and health center
napuno pud og tawo. Bisan
unsa kalayo baktason para
moadto gyud og health center (The school and health
center were filled up. Despite the distance, people
would hike just to reach the
health center).” A farmer,
Maribeth is also a Pantawid
parent leader and treasurer
of Sto. Nino SKA. Her community now enjoys a potable
water system through KALAHI-CIDSS which also brought
a community library, tribal
housing units, corn mills, day
care centers, among others
to the people of Talaingod.
Magdum SKA president,
Angelina Birondo admits,
they have succeeded because
they are always willing to
listen and learn from DSWD
project development officers
assigned in their area. She
said she has learned to share
and cooperate in a group
FPRO, 13
Members of Magdum Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran Association (SKA) in one of their weekly meetings.
COMMUNITY SENSE 11
12 NATION/WORLD
NATION BRIEFS
T
Tied
HE hands of President Benigno Aquino
III are tied on declaring comedy king Rodolfo
“Dolphy” Quizon as national artist, a Malacanang
official said Thursday.
Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda
said President Aquino recognizes the contribution
of Quizon in the movie
industry but he could not
name the 83-year-old actor as national artist due
to the existing temporary
restraining order (TRO)
preventing Malacanang
from conferring the Order
of National Artists award.
B
Richest
USINESS
tycoon
Henry Sy and his
family are still the
richest in the Philippines,
topping the Forbes list
of Philippine billionaires
with a net worth of $9.1
billion or some P385 billion.
The Sys control SM
Prime, the largest mall
developer in the Philippines, with Henry Sy Jr.’s
stake in the National Grid
Corporation of the Philippines adding to the family’s fortune, Forbes said.
The Sys are 116th in a list
of the world’s billionaires
topped by Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim,
who has $69 billion.
C
Tightened
HINA has set up a
new “prefecture level” city called Sansha
to administer three disputed islands in the West
Philippine Sea (South
China Sea), according to
Chinese state-ownedXinhua news agency.
The development has
tightened China’s grip on
islands that it calls its own
in the West Philippine Sea,
particularly the Spratlys.
People’s faith
P
HILIPPINE boxing
hero Manny Pacquiao said Thursday
that a WBO panel ruling
that he had won his controversial bout against
Timothy Bradley would
help restore people’s faith
in the sport.
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) on its
website Thursday said all
five members of a special
panel it asked to review
the controversial June 9
Las Vegas bout scored
it in favour of Pacquiao.
The WBO said it could not
overturn the result of the
fight or ask Bradley to surrender the belt, but that it
could authorise a rematch.
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China strongly protests
E
Vietnam claim to islands
WORLD TODAY
C
HINA said it summoned
Vietnam’s
ambassador Thursday and strongly protested a law adopted by the
Vietnamese parliament
that places the disputed
Spratly and Paracel islands
under Hanoi’s sovereignty.
China and Vietnam, as
well as other neighbouring nations, are locked in
long-standing territorial
disputes over the South
China Sea, including the
mineral-rich Spratly and
Paracel islands.
“The... actions by the
Vietnamese side are illegal and invalid. China expresses its strong protest
and firm opposition,” foreign ministry spokesman
Hong Lei told reporters.
“The Vietnamese unilateral actions ... complicate and magnify the issue. China will resolutely
safeguard territorial sovereignty.”
Hong said Vietnam’s
ambassador to China
Nguyen Van Tho was summoned to the foreign ministry Thursday and told of
Beijing’s displeasure.
According to Vietnamese parliamentarian Duong Trung Quoc, the leg-
An aerial photo shows Thitu Island, part of the disputed Spratly
group of islands, in the South China Sea in 2011. China said
it summoned Vietnam’s ambassador Thursday and strongly
protested a law adopted by the Vietnamese parliament that
places the disputed Spratly and Paracel islands under Hanoi’s
sovereignty.
islation is a first for Hanoi
on what it calls the East
Sea.
“The adoption of this
law on the sea today is
very important for Vietnam,” he told AFP.
“It helps solidify both
how Vietnam will implement its sovereignty over
the Paracel and Spratly Islands and its international
commitments.”
Tensions in the South
China Sea have risen
sharply recently, with
China and the Philippines
locked in a maritime dis-
pute over Scarborough
Shoal, a reef off the Philippine coast.
But tensions eased
when the Philippines ordered two of its ships to
withdraw from the shoal
last week, a move that was
welcomed by China.
The disputed region is
a key trading route for the
US, which has expressed
concern over sporadic
flare-ups between countries.
Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia, and
the Philippines all claim
parts of the South China
Sea.
China also announced
Thursday it had elevated
the administrative status
of the Nansha (Spratly)
and Xisha (Paracel) islands from a county to a
prefectural-level district,
the civil affairs ministry
said in a statement.
It was not immediately
clear what the new status
would mean for the islands, which boasted a total population of just over
500 people according to
China’s census in 2000.
leader received a standing
ovation on arrival, introduced as “the conscience of
a country and a heroine for
humanity”.
“We have an opportunity to reestablish true democracy in Burma. It is an
opportunity for which we
have waited decades,” she
told a forum previously reserved for world leaders
such as Nelson Mandela and
Barack Obama.
“If we do not get things
right this time right round,
it may be several decades
more before a similar opportunity arises again. I
would ask Britain, as one of
the oldest parliamentary democracies, to consider what
it can do to help build the
sound institutions needed to
build a nascent parliamentary democracy.”
Suu Kyi, only the second
woman to address both
houses of parliament after
Queen Elizabeth, is in Brit-
ain as part of a 17-day tour
of Europe that has at times
been emotional and physically demanding.
On Wednesday, she returned to Oxford, where she
once lived with her late husband and two sons before
returning to Myanmar, also
known as Burma, in 1988.
The visit, to care for her
mother, was supposed to be
brief, but Suu Kyi, daughter
of assassinated Myanmar independence hero Aung San,
was swept into her country’s political turmoil as the
military crushed protests.
The Oxford graduate
spent 15 of the next 24 years
under house arrest, becoming an icon of non-violent
political resistance.
During army rule, Suu
Kyi refused offers allowing her to leave the country
for fear she would not be
allowed to return, costing
her the chance to see her
children grow up and also
the opportunity to be with
her husband, Michael Aris,
before he died of cancer in
1999.
After nearly half a century of direct military rule, in
2011 the junta gave way to a
quasi-civilian government
stuffed with former generals, and since then current
President Thein Sein has
startled the world with his
appetite for reforms.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes history
with British parliament address
M
YANMAR democracy champion
Aung San Suu Kyi
became the first non-head
of state to address both
houses of Britain’s parliament on Thursday in a rare
honour she used to ask for
help in bringing democracy
to the former British colony.
Cutting a tiny figure in
parliament’s cavernous and
historic Westminster Hall,
the 67-year-old Nobel Peace
laureate and opposition
Siege
LITE Afghan police
backed by NATO
forces ended a 12hour siege on Friday at
a popular lakeside hotel
outside Kabul, leaving at
least 20 dead after Taliban gunmen stormed the
lakeside building, bursting into a party and seizing dozens of hostages.
The night-time assault on the hotel with
rocket-propelled
grenades, suicide vests and
machine guns again
proved how potent the
Islamist insurgency remains after a decade of
war.
Backed
ENATE
President
Juan Ponce Enrile
yesterday joined the
call for the immediate release from hospital arrest
of former President and
now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, saying that government may
rely on three strong arguments in foregoing of any
attempt to block his bid
for bail.
He also warned that
the government may find
itself liable if something
happens to her.
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, watched by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, delivers an address
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A
Raid
N Israeli air strike
on Gaza killed one
Palestinian
and
wounded two on Saturday, medics said, in a
blow to Egyptian-brokered efforts to restore
an informal truce.
There was no immediate confirmation from
the Israeli military of
the latest raid which followed several on the territory during the night
that drew retaliatory
rocket fire into Israel.
T
Needing
HE number of
people needing humanitarian assistance in Syria has risen
to 1.5 million from the
previous estimate of 1
million as escalating violence drives more people
from their homes, the
United Nations said on
Friday.
Aid agencies face “significant” constraints in
reaching growing numbers of civilians who need
basic goods and protection, it said.
A
Blast
blast went off outside a nightclub in
the Nigerian capital Abuja hours after the
national security adviser
and defence minister
were sacked amid fears
over spiralling violence in
the country’s north.
No casualties were
reported in the explosion
late Friday. Windows in
the nightclub, a bank and
a barber shop were shattered and a number of
cars were damaged.
T
Pressure
HE Muslim Brotherhood expects its
anticipated presidential election win to be
respected, its candidate
said Friday, as the group’s
supporters packed Cairo’s
Tahrir Square to pressure
Egypt’s ruling military.
The
Brotherhood
wants neither “confrontation nor violence,” as the
country nervously awaits
the official result of the
divisive June 16-17 poll
run-off, its standard bearer Mohamed Morsi said.
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Conversion...
FFROM 1
Golez, Jr., HB 6069 was approved in the Lower House
last May 16, and will be filed
as Senate Bill 3130 authored
by Franklin Drilon soon after
the opening of the 16th Congress next month.
The Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC)
in Davao City and the Davao
Regional Hospital in Tagum
City are among the hospitals to be made into corporations, according to Mary
Ann Sapar, secretary general
of Gabriela-Southern Mindanao.
The groups are one in
saying that they are against
“corporatization” of public
hospitals as this will lead to
increase of rates of hospital
and medical services and
the decrease of budget for
charity patients now being
catered to by these hospitals.
GOCC hospitals will be profit-oriented, they charged.
Fishery...
Sapar pointed out that
based on the conditions of
government-owned and controlled corporation hospitals, poor people have been
deprived of access to health
care services.
She said for instance,
1,600 indigent cardiac patients in a year are waiting
to be operated in the Philippine Heart Center because
patients who have capacity
to pay are prioritized, adding that basically, GOCCs are
profit-oriented rather than
providing social services.
The groups drafted Sangguniang Panglunsod resolution to be filed by Councilor
Leah Librado, chairperson
of the committee on women
and children.
The corporatization, according to the resolution,
violates the people’s rights
to free access to health care
services, the rights of public
Pro...
More...
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However, he admitted the
lack of graduates from these
fields, saying only 500 licensees had so far
been recorded since the beginning
of the fisheries course in the
country.
The BFAR will take care
of the training and 50% of the
salary for the next two years
for third, fourth and fifth
class municipalities.
A monthly salary of
P17,000 will be paid to those
licensed in fisheries, and
P13,000 for criminologists.
Next year, the bureau will
acquire 27 new 45-footer
boats worth of P6 million to
P7 million each, made of either steel or fiber glass to be
utilized by the QRTs, and the
Davao region will have two
boats.
These new boats are in
health workers to job security and just wages as health
services become a business.
Sapar also mentioned
that as proposed in the bill,
the hospitals are allowed to
invest in high technology
equipment, minimizing the
requirement for labor force.
She added that HB 6069
and SB 3130 will result in
increase of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity
rate as poor women and underpaid health workers will
not be able to access free
health care services.
Gabriela Davao Chapter
will conduct a big forum in
Davao City and invite Rep.
Luzviminda Ilagan of the Gabriela Women’s Party.
Some 100 women will
participate in a protest action to lambast the hospital
corporatization bills on June
28 in front of the SPMC at
one o’clock in the afternoon.
addition to the existing 10
vessels that BFAR has for the
entire country.
Further, Perez bared that
this is also in preparation for
the transformation of BFAR
into a department.
He said it is high time
for the bureau to become a
department considering its
huge areas of responsibility
and the lack of manpower.
The BFAR presently has
1,200 regular staff to cover
the 7,100 islands in the Philippines. This reality, he said,
equates to six islands per employee.
Transforming the BFAR
into a department will organize its structure and augment the manpower to about
4,000 regular employees
with a ratio of one or two islands per person, he added.
permanent, and not irregular.
This means that she/
he is a holder of valid Philippine passport and does
not have an immigrant
status in a foreign country;
and, that her/his employment is documented and
she/he possesses a valid
residency or work permit
as well as other employment documents.
The OFW has at least
four years of work experience as an OFW, and the
family is known in the locality as a solid or stable
family; and, financially
stable.
The deadline of nomination will be on July 31,
and the awarding for regional winners will be in
October, while for national
winners in December. [LORIe
A. CASCARO]
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atmosphere. Likewise, she
has developed high regard
for herself and has learned
to understand and appreciate
her fellow members.
Florencia Ponte of Magdum SKA used to raise hogs
and was too shy to even just
talk to other people much
more attend meetings. Her
friends in the group helped
her overcome this by making
her speak out her mind, and
giving her the responsibility
to manage the funds for their
Christmas party. She said she
has earned their trust and
they earned her respect. Now,
she has no reason to be timid.
She has improved and her
life is much better and she
always looks forward to their
Tuesday meetings.
Giving back
As program recipients
immerse and learn from community projects, they commit
to continue their involvement
and support. Maribeth said
she’ll work harder, attend
trainings, be always active
and learn to socialize while
Susan promised to conform
to program policy and be a
model recipient. Morever, she
would encourage others to
attend assemblies and not be
absent.
Conchita Lagoy, a BHW,
parent leader for Pantawid
and secretary to Sto. Nino
SKA in Talaingod, shares Susan’s enthusiasm to adhere to
program conditions and remain an active project member. “Magtuman gyud sa mga
pamalaod. Kogihan ko motambong ug mopa-ambit sa
kauban. Kinahanglan magaktibo sa buluhaton sa barangay aron masayod sa mga kalihokan (I really follow rules,
attend meetings and share
what I know. We need to be
mindful of barangay affairs so
we’ll be informed).” Conchita
hopes to attend more livelihood seminars.
Further, Maribeth assured, “Maningkamot ko nga
dili masayang ang hinabang
sa gobyerno para sa amoa
(I will strive so that government assistance will not be
in vain).”
Teresita Cadungog of
Palma Gil, Talaingod said she
will share her time and be
socially active. She says she
is mindful of her obligations.
Teresita is treasurer of Pantawid and a member of SKA.
As GKK president, Pantawid parent leader and SKA
president, Lilan Libayao said
she will permanently be active in community undertakings. She also promised,
“Mapadayon ang maayong
prinsipyo ug batasan (Continue to radiate fine attitude
and values).” Lilan hails from
JBL, Talaingod.
Other poor communities
in the cities of Tagum and
Davao, Laak, Talaingod and
other municipalities in Davao
Region also enjoy capital
assistance through Sustainable Livelihood Program,
sub-projects of KALAHI-CIDSS, subsidy from Pantawid
Pamilya, hot meals through
Supplementary
Feeding,
Social Pension for indigent
senior citizens, Rice Subsidy
for farmers and fisherfolks,
among others. (DSWD/CARMeLA
CADIGAL-DURON)
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JCI Senate says no
to illegal mining
By Lorie A. Cascaro
Y
ES to responsible mining, no
to illegal mining.
This is the advocacy of
the JCI Senate Philippines, which
will hold a forum on responsible
mining on July 3 at the Grand
Men Seng Hotel here in partnership with the Chamber of Mines
of the Philippines and the Coalition for Responsible Mining in
Mindanao.
These institutions expect the
forum to bridge the information
gap between the minerals industry and its stakeholders.
“Through the conduct of a
target information campaign,
we hope to bring about better
understanding, partnership and
cooperation between and among
industry players and stakeholders; and, to solicit support for responsible minerals development
and against illegal mining in all
forms,” the organizers said.
Representatives from local governments, the academe,
business, media, civil society and
church are invited to participate
in the forum.
Meanwhile, in a press statement, a youth group called Generation Peace raised that government should reform its mining
policy and other programs that
have been responsible for the
3 cemeteries...
FFROM 1
arguing that private cemetery is not within the city’s
famous Dumoy aquifer. He
is reported to be vent on reintroducing the measure this
week, after failing to do so
last month.
Al-ag and cemetery proponents are taking advantage of a seemingly infirmity
of an existing city ordinance
–Ordinance No. 117-01, Series of 2001, known as the
“Water Resource Management and Protection Code of
Davao City.” The ordinance
also referred to as the Water Code failed to include
Dumoy and neighboring barangays are “water resource
areas” where the establishment of cemeteries or memorial parks is one of the 20
prohibited activities.
Article 6 of the 14-page
ordinance merely points
out the following as water
resource area and protected
from certain acts of activities
as provided for in the local
law:
“a) Calinan to Dacudao
–Latitude 7 deg. 12’30N Longitude 125 deg. 28’45”E;
b) Calinan to Malagos
–Latitude 7 deg. 10’00’ N
Longitude 125 deg. 125 deg.
25’35” E;
c) Sirawan –Latitude 6
deg. 59’30”N Longitude 125
deg. 28’45’N
d) All other areas as the
Council may hereinafter
identify and declare as water resource areas.”
Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, a member
of the WMC, had acknowledged the non-inclusion of
the Dumoy aquifer in the
ordinance and vowed to introduce an amendment to
it. The same promise was
made by Councilor Marissa Salvador-Abella, the
other councilor member of
the WMC, during the last
month’s citywide consulta-
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Meanwhile,
organic
farmers last June 19-21 exhibited their produce during
the Araw ng Boston celebration at Davao Oriental.
Participating in the agroforestry trade fair are the
groups of the United Farmers, Fisher folks, Women, and
Youth Organizations, and the
Youth for Peace Movement of
Boston.
Said groups were among
the beneficiaries to the livelihood training program given
by the 67th Infantry Battalion which gave lectures on
seaweed production.
tion with more than 180 barangay captains.
The opposition against
memorial parks on top of
the city’s aquifer is being
led by Dumoy barangay captain Jessie Mar Culaste and
the United Residents and
Homeowners Association of
Dacoville, Inc. (Urhadi) led
by Conrado Vidanes.
The WMC has included
discussion on the three private cemeteries in the next
meeting of the multi-sectoral council.
Asibal said that a group
of members are now looking into relevant documents
while another group is preparing a statement of concern.
He said that it would be
ironic to allow the destruction of the Dumoy aquifer
when there are ongoing
concerted efforts to manage and protect the city’s
all important watersheds by
the administration of Mayor
Sara Duterte.
Earlier, Cabling said that
water kept in the watershed
in Davao City’s mountain
fastnesses takes 50 years to
arrive in the Dumoy aquifer.
The WMC is headed by
Mayor Sara as chairperson
and acting administration
Zulieka Lopez as vice chair.
The council’s spokespersons or champions are
Councilors Cabling and
Abella, acting city agriculturist Leonardo Avila III
and CENRO chief Dominic
Joseph Felizarta.
Other members are
heads of the DCWD, DENR,
Davao City Chamber of
Commerce, National Commission on Indigenous
Peoples, the academe, nongovernment organizations,
medical society, Integrated
Bar of the Philippines, the
media, and certain city government offices.
Col. Rueben Basiao of the
67th IB also shared that his
unit is working in cooperation with the Boston Municipal Agriculture Officer Victoria Pagaduan in creating
a Community Development
Team in the municipality.
“We pushed these livelihood projects, together with
the local government units,
to
address the needs of
every community ensuring
that the residents can then
sustain the
program in the long run”,
Col. Basiao said.
plunder of Mindanao’s resources.
The youth group blames
large-scale mining and plantations for floods last December
in the cities of Cagayan de Oro
and Iligan, killing thousands of
people.
“There should be no repeat
of such disaster, when government prioritizes ecological justice along with economic justice
for the people,” the group said.
Generation Peace also demands to include environmentally-sound reforms in the economic agenda of the peace talks
between the Government of the
Philippines and the National
Democratic Front of the
Philippines.
During his recent visit here,
President Benigno Aquino III
said he is still doing some fine
tuning on the executive order on
mining policy reforms, which will
include regulating small-scale
mining in the light of establishing
“minahan ng bayan” or a government-owned mining industry.
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Transportation
and Communications
LAND TRANSPORTATION FRANCHISING AND
REGULATORY BOARD
Regional Office No. XI
Davao city
Petition for Renewal of a Certificate of
Public Convenience to operate
A PUB MINI BUS Ordinary Regular Service
TERESITA M. ROSALEJOS,
Petitioner
Case No.2002-XI-00087-DP
x- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - -x
NOTICE HEARING
Petitioner is a grantee of a Certificate of
Public Convenience issued in this case authorizing the operation of a PUB MINI BUS Ordinary
Regular Service on the route: TAGUM CITY-MASARA VIA BRGY. ANDILI, ELIZALDE, COMPOSTELA
VALLEY and vice versa with the use of ONE (1)
unit, which Certificate expired last February 12,
2012. In the petition filed on April 23, 2012, petitioner request authority to extend the validity
of said certificate to operate along the same
route with the use of the same unit previously
authorized.
NOTICE, is hereby given that this petition
will be heard by this Board on JULY 10, 2012 at
10:00 a.m. at this office at the above address.
At least, FIVE (5) days prior to the above
date petitioner shall publish this Notice once in
a one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation
in Mindanao
Parties opposed to the granting of the
petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before
the above date furnishing a copy of the same to
the petitioner, and may if they so, desire appear
on said date and time.
This petition will be acted upon by this
Board on the basis of its records and the documentary evidence submitted by the parties,
unless the Board deems it necessary to receive
additional documentary and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable BENJAMIN A. GO,
CESO V, Regional Director, this 23rd day of April
2012 at Davao City.
TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZ
Chief Transport Development Officer
/hoc
Copy furnished:
Petitioner, Teresita M. Rosalejos, Panibasan,
Maco, Compostela Valley
Counsel, Atty. Lucilo B. Sarona, Jr., JMS Bldg.,
88 Maya St., Matina, Ecoland, Davao City
NOTE: Affidavit of Publication and newspaper
where notice was published must be submitted
three (3) days before the scheduled hearing.
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Dolphy does it all
By Edward C. Lactaoen
Diverse. if there’s any single word that could be used to describe the
roles Dolphy has portrayed throughout his career, diverse would probably be one of the most fitting words for it.
Born rodolfo vera
Quizon, and more wellknown by his nickname
Dolphy, is an icon in the
Philippine art of acting.
With a career spanning
several decades, taking on
a diverse variety of roles
throughout, Dolphy is nothing short of a treasure that
represents the best of acting
in film and television.
in his breakout role, Dolphy was cast as Gorio, a gay
character in 1954’s Jack en
Jill. Dolphy’s role as Gorio,
would pave the way for him
to portray more gay roles in
comedies at various other
times in his career.
The “Philippine King of
Comedy” also had several
stints in films spoofing secret agent films when they
proliferated in the 60’s.
Taking the moniker Agent
1-2-3 as inspired by Agent
007, Dolphy strengthened
his comedic reputation over
the years he spent in film.
in 1973, in what would
be the first of his major
roles in television, Dolphy
portrayed John Puruntong in the Tv series John
en Marsha. in this sitcom,
Dolphy was able to portray
the plight of the Filipino
everyman trying to make
ends meet. even given the
character’s grave situation,
Dolphy remained successful in bringing smiles to the
households who watched
the story of John Puruntong unfold. Dolphy would
later be cast once again as a
Filipino everyman in the series Home Along Da riles.
These two series combined
ran for over two decades,
reinforcing the legacy of the
career that pays testament
to the ability of Dolphy to
entertain the Filipino peo-
ple.
Dolphy’s illustrious career
may be filled with his track
record of comedy films, but
ventures into other genres
have shown that he is not
a one-dimensional actor.
Dolphy departed from his
regular comedic portrayal
of gays when he played the
role of Walter Dempster Jr.
or Walterina Markova in
the film Markova: Comfort
Gay. in the film, Dolphy
was successful in showing a more serious side in
his acting, ably portraying
the struggle that Markova
went through in his days
as a comfort gay during
the Japanese occupation of
the Philippines. His performance in the film earned
him nominations for Best
Actor during the FAMAs
Awards and Gawad Urian
Awards.
With a career spanning
many decades, Dolphy has
received numerous awards
over the years. His only
FAMAs Award is being
the Best Actor for the film
Omeng satanasia, but many
of the other award-giving
bodies in the country have
awarded him with Lifetime
Achievement awards for his
innumerable contributions
to the Philippine entertainment industry. in November of 2010, Dolphy was
awarded the Grand Collar
of the Order of the Golden
Heart by the president himself, giving recognition to
his work in the entertainment industry as well as his
philanthropic works.
Dolphy is a single man
who has taken up many
names and roles in his career in the entertainment
industry, but his best role is
he as himself. Dolphy continues to be an icon for the
Filipnos, one that has shown
them over the years that no
matter what happens in life,
there will always be a reason
to smile.
Edward is a senior Communications student of the
Ateneo de Davao University.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
ENTERTAINMENT
There shall never
be another Dolphy
siNCe this afternoon we have all remained restless. And sad. Although
we have heard about his physical condition for some time, we are still
struck with such loneliness when we hear the updates regarding his
health.
This time it looks bad.
As i write this, everyone is
quiet and speculating. We
all love the man. The nation
has always loved this man.
We love him because for
decades — nay, generations
— he never ceased to give us
the joys of laughter.
His was a most imperfect
life but he never made any
claims of sainthood nor did
he use himself as an example
of perfection.
He shunned invitations
to join politics ... and instead preserved that oh-soawesome disposition that
had remained unchanging
through so many years that
we have known him. What
was it about him that made
him so different — and so
loved? it certainly was not
his reputation as a Lothario.
it was not the sheer power of
his comedic talent. it was his
humanity. it was his humility.
it was because they don’t
make people like him any
more.
There shall never be another Dolphy.
We are in tears because
we do not know a life in this
country — with our obsession for stars and show business — without that single
icon whose very image embodies all of what we know
as Philippine comedy.
if Fernando Poe Jr was
Da King ... then Dolphy
owned the other half of
the kingdom. if FPJ shared
the throne with the equally
iconic Joseph estrada, Dolphy reigned unquestioned
and unchallenged as the
emperor of Comedy. For he,
together with only a handful
left, represent the entire evolution of popular entertainment in the country as we
understand it today. Dolphy
is living history.
For the career of rodolfo
Quizon was not as privileged as the “stars” of today
who become overnight
sensations because of the
availability, accessibility and
the power of media. Dolphy rose from the ranks. He
honed his talents through
years of hard work together
with some of the legends
whose names shall forever
remain etched in the annals
of entertainment doctrines
in our country.
To trace the history of
Dolphy’s career is to create
a map of what was Philippine entertainment through
decades of the twentieth
and the early twenty-first
century.
From the bit player of
stage shows called bodabil
where the likes of Mary
Walter, Bayani Casimiro,
Katy de la Cruz, German
Moreno, Pugo, Tugo, Lupito and Patsy — and, yes,
the young Gloria romero
— found their footing into
the world of music, applause and laughter, Dolphy
evolved into more than just
an icon — but a personification of the Filipino immortalized by stage, television
and films.
Anyone Filipino familiar
with local mass media, its
images and elements cannever talk about television
without mentioning the
name of John Puruntong.
For who of that Tv generation escaped the years
of amusement that Ading
Fernando’s seminal Filipino family in the persons
of John, his wife Marsha
(played by the late Nida
Blanca) and their children
rolly (performed by his
real life son rolly Quizon)
and shirley (embodied by
a child star named Maricel
soriano at the start of the series). John en Marsha holds
the record of being one of
the longest running sitcoms
in Philippine television. The
family evolved right front
of the eyes of the viewer —
and, to this day, the Filipino
everyman has been and will
always be John Puruntong.
For the younger generation, Dolphy is Kevin Cosme
of Home Along Da riles.A
carry-over of the John Puruntong character, Kevin
Cosme provided the same
image of the Pinoy tatay
who dealt with fate with an
open heart and who never
lost his humanity amid the
foibles and complexities offered by life.
One thing notable about
Dolphy’s seminal portrayals
and characters: they are funny in a Chaplin-esque way:
it is the vulnerability of the
portrayal that makes him
lovable. He is never harsh,
he is never impolite — and
he does not resort of vulgarity to win his laughs. He is a
gentleman as much as he is a
comedian. He dignified the
power to generate laughter
... never resorting to the lowest techniques and strategies
just to elicit a chuckle.
Unlike comedy as it is
understood today (founded
more on profanity, insulting
and macabre forms of aggression), Dolphy was the
master of timing, wit and
even underacting. Whereas
others resort to in-your-face
slapstick even to the point
of vulgarity or brutality just
for laughs, Dolphy was the
original Mister suave who
earned his laughs by being
real and human and never
insulting the dignity of his
co-actors just to pander to
an audience.
it is this humanity that
has made his other most
memorable characters go
far beyond the superficiality
of slapstick.
remember Facifica Falayfay or Fefita Fofonggay?
Whereas there are still those
who feel that the actor made
a mockery of the flamboyant gay image, a closer look
would reveal that never did
he assume a condescending nor an insulting attitude toward the characters
he played. On the contrary,
despite the fact that he was
going for the laughs, Dolphy
showed affection and love
for the characters because
he made them human and
not mere shrill caricatures
as others of less talent and
nobility of intention would
tend to do. He never made
his gay characters abrasive
— loud perhaps and excessive — but never consciously malicious nor indecent.
That is what made them
funny ... yet endearing.
And in that movie where
Dolphy worked with another legend of Philippine cinema Lino Brocka, in a film
entitled Ang Tatay Kong
Nanay with then child superstar Nino Muhlach, the
master comedian proved
that behind the perfection
in comedic timing lived an
actor whose sensibilities and
sensitivities could easily elicit tears from the audience as
well.
For more than anything
else, Dolphy was an artist.
During his Buhay Artista days in the old ABsCBN, Dolphy displayed his
smooth moves on the dance
floor as well as his perfect
chemistry with then sidekick Panchito Alba. To this
day, we of that generation
recall all those somewhat
tired but still funny weekly
routines when Dolphy and
Panchito translated english
songs into Pilipino. The humor was actually a one-note
number but still we succumbed to fits of hysterical
laughter as the duo massacred their musical translations.
But perhaps for the people in the industry, Dolphy
means so much more than
the other half of the symbol
of the business: the mask
that flaunted laughter, he
who is the quiet and gentle
clown.
Dolphy is loved by his colleagues because of legendary
generosity — but more so,
his endearing ability to listen
to others. Despite his stature,
Dolphy never lost his sense
of reality — and humility.
He would always be the first
to give a helping hand even
before anybody asked for it.
He would lavish people with
what was within his reach
... inasmuch as he would
make sure that he took care
of everything and everyone
around him. That was his
sense of high. That was what
kept his humanity.
Whereas nowadays we
are surrounded by instant
celebrities who think they
are stars and behave as if
the entire universe revolved
around them, a man of such
magnitude and stature like
our Mang Dolphy remained
the same simple, feet-onthe-ground gentleman with
a soft voice and immacu-
lately garbed. Unlike today
when “stars” enter a room
with their intimidating entourage as if demanding
everyone within peripheral
view to turn around and
look while declaring, “Look,
you mortals ... i am here!”
Dolphy would slip in quietly, take his seat and make
himself as inconspicuous
as possible — as if he of the
stuff that make legends is
wary that he would disturb
the peace.
i never had a chance to
work with Dolphy as a director — but what i hold
dearest was the opportunity
to work for him as a writer.
And considering all the
volumes of work i have written for television and screen,
that single television script
i created for a made-for-tv
movie starring the King of
Comedy should prove to
be one of the closest to my
heart.
entitled “Love, Daddy”, it
was directed by Peque Gallaga.
Aside from Dolphy, this
obscure piece of work also
featured the late Charito solis and his son eric Quizon
as well as Dawn Zulueta.
When i was approached
to write for this project, i
immediately thought of a
story i was yearning to see
onscreen and i knew Mang
Pidol would be the perfect
actor to portray the role. it
was about my father’s year
right after his retirement:
even before Jack Nicholson
did About schmidt, i wrote
a teleplay about the pain,
agony and frustrations of a
freshly retired man who has
worked all his life and is now
compelled to stay home and
feel absolutely useless.
i guess the story was just
too close to my real life because when my parents
— as well as my other relatives — saw the telecast, the
reactions were varied. some
of my cousins were on the
floor laughing as Dolphy
faithfully captured the pagkabugnutin of my father as
he found himself at home
doing nothing except nitpicking on all the details of
running a household and
looking over my Mommy’s
shoulders while she underwent her own therapy to
cope with my Dad’s omnipresence: making endless
kalderos of mango jam.
My mother was not too
happy because she said i did
not characterize her correctly (and i still laugh each time
i remember how my mother
berated me for making her
look somewhat like a contravida — and worse, when
she went completely ballistic
and said, “Hindi ko iniwan
ang tatay mo, ano? Bakit mo
pinalabas na hiniwalayan ko
ang Daddy mo?!”)
But it was my Dad who
was the best sport. That is
why to this day i miss him.
Amid all the flurry of reactions, my Dad said: “How
much more honor can i get?
somebody portrayed me ...
and it was no less than Dolphy.”
i never had the chance to
tell Mang Dolphy the happiness he gave my father for
unwittingly portraying his
role.
But now that i think of it,
i feel bad ... i feel sad when
i hear all the news about
Mang Dolphy’s state of
health. i guess the affinity is
there.
Like so many of us in
the entertainment business,
we are so afraid — so terrified — to be left behind by a
man who we all consider as
our father.
i have said it once and
i will say it again: rodolfo
Quizon may not have been
given the honor of being a
National Artist (for some
reason or another to which
i will refuse to even think
about or discuss because
the deed has been done) —
but to a number of us, nay, a
great number of us not only
in show business — Dolphy
is more than a National Artist appointed by a committee
and anointed by a Palace.
The man who made us
laugh is a national treasure.
And no simple decision of
men or laws can make some
as priceless.
We love you, Mang Dolphy. We cannot imagine
Philippine entertainment
without you.
(As published on the
blog of Direk Joey Reyes,
chokingonmyadobo.blogspot.com, last June 20,
2012.)
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
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snagged in his web:
some early-bird reviews!
The Amazing SpiderMan doesn’t open Stateside until this weekend,
but a handful of critics
have already swung into
action with their verdict
on the highly anticipated
reboot.
And although the friendly neighborhood webslinger has proven to be one of
pop culture’s most beloved
superheroes, the flick is
anything but a sure bet:
It’s got an untested leading man (Andrew Garfield)
and a first-time big-budget
director (Marc Webber).
Not to mention the fact
that this do-over comes
just five years after Tobey
Maguire hung up his Spidey suit from Sam Raimi’s
trio of Spider-Man blockbusters.
So has this new webslinger spun gold?
Sure looks like it: Many
reviewers seem sold on
the reboot, singling out its
fresh cast and darker tone,
with just a few holdouts
Swinging good or all bugged out?
dinging the flick for failing
to live up to its predecessors.
“Leaping back onto the
screen with a new cast,
crew, costume and a whole
new array of daddy issues,
The Amazing Spider-Man
reboots the top-grossing
Marvel franchise to altogether satisfying results,”
praises Jordan Mintzer of
The Hollywood Reporter.
“Directed with emotional
depth and plenty of comedic touches, this somewhat
darker depiction inserts a
touching portrait of ado-
lescent angst into an otherwise predictable dose of
CGI-fueled action.”
“Webb
successfully
treads a fine line between
keeping the hardcore superhero-movie fans happy
and injecting a dose of
meaningful affect,” writes
The Guardian’s Andrew
Pulver, noting that the director is “aided by a terrific
performance from Andrew
Garfield, who brings a genial
unflappability…It’s
the successful synthesis
of the two—action and
emotion—that means this
Spider-Man is as enjoyable
as it is impressive: Webb’s
control of mood and texture is near faultless as his
film switches from teenage sulks to exhilarating
airborne pyrotechnics.”
“Swinging from fresh
to faithful-to-source, Marc
Webb’s reboot is a sparky,
well-cast, often punchy
Spidey spin” observes Total Film’s kevin Harley, “but
it’s also Spider-Man Begins
Again, struggling in places
to assert its own identity….
[Webb] gets enough right
to sign us up for a sequel.”
“The film’s second half
offers more than enough
bungee-swinging through
Manhattan’s
concrete
canyons,
immaculately
rendered in vertiginous,
silky-smooth 3D, to satisfy
thrill-seekers of either sex,”
writes The Telegraph’s Robbie Colin. “What’s refreshing is how Webb makes
those action sequences
count: with a plot that rests
almost entirely on the romance between his two
leads.”
The Daily Mail’s Chris
Tookey, meanwhile, derided the film as “an efficient piece of corporate
filmmaking, but nothing
more,” adding that “there
isn’t a lot that hasn’t been
seen before, and although
the special effects are impressive, they’re no improvement on Spider-Man
2, which remains by far the
best of the franchise. Webb.
does a competent job,
helped by his two talented
leading actors, but doesn’t
bring anything fresh to the
party.
“Webb’s film is slow on
plot, skimpy on character
development,” writes the
Evening Standard’s Nick
Curtis. “The ‘RealD 3D’ is
fine for the flying sequences, confusing in the fights,
and gives that awful cardboard-cutout look to narrative scenes. Webb saves
up most of the emotional
punch for a downbeat,
wet-eyed ending in which
Garfield and Emma Stone
are superb.”
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Olympic
countdown
What will be on the playlist
come opening night?
DANNy Boyle is going for gold!
The
oscar-winning
Slumdog Millionaire director, who’ll be helming the
vaunted opening ceremony at the 2012 olympics
in London, has already revealed his head-scratching
plans for the blockbuster
bonanza. (Brace yourself
for livestock, meadows and
village cricket!)
Now, the musical playlist for the opening has
supposedly leaked, giving
olympics watchers a preemptive glimpse at what
the brazenly singular director might have in the
works.
Is it a perfect 10?
Depends on how you
look at it.
The full list, as reported
by The Telegraph, offers
a sweeping survey of the
British musical canon that
spans eras and genres.
There are classics from
the Beatles (“She Loves
you”) and The kinks (“All
Day and All of the Night”),
along with, er, all-out classics: Handel’s “Arrival of the
Queen of Sheba” supposedly makes an arrival.
Punk rock gets a shoutout with the Sex Pistols’
“God Save the Queen” and
The Clash’s “London Calling,” while glam-rock is am-
ply repped by David Bowie
(who reportedly gets three
tunes—”Starman,” “Heroes” and “Absolute Beginners”) and Queen (“Bohemian Rhapsody”—natch!).
you’ve also got British
rock royalty, with the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction,”
Led Zeppelin’s “Trampled
Under Foot” and The Who’s
“My Generation.”
The playlist also gives
props to New Wave— Duran Duran and New order
are in there—as well as Top
40 hitmakers, with ditties
from Adele and Coldplay.
Noticeably
absent,
however, are tunes from
British musical icons Elton
John and Tom Jones, who
recently played at Queen
Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee concert. (Guess Boyle
didn’t want this playlist on
“repeat”?)
Speaking of the monarch, the queen herself will
be attending the opening
ceremony, which should
make for a very interesting
situation if one particular song, which is also on
the reported lineup, actually gets played: “Relax”
by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
15
The
King
gets his crown
M
IAMI – Lebron
James can now
enshrine
his
name King James.
After his coronation on
Friday, the boy who would
be King, has finally sat on
his rightful throne.
It didn’t come easy as
1,2, 3. Not even with the
Big Three in Miami.
A year ago, with an
easier path, the Miami Heat
fell short of their championship goal.
This time, things seemed
much tougher to the Heat which made the reward only
that much sweeter.
The Heat are the NBA
champions, after taking an unlikely, uneasy road to the top
of the pro basketball world.
They were down against Indiana in the second round,
down and facing elimination
against Boston in the Eastern
Conference title series, down
yet again against Oklahoma
City in the NBA Finals. And
strange as this would seem,
when the Heat looked most
vulnerable, it turned out they
were at their best.
Down 2-1 to Indiana, the
Heat won three straight. Down
3-2 to Boston, they won two
straight. Down 1-0 to the
Thunder, they swept the last
four games.
‘’You come together,’’
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra
said. ‘’You can either go the
other way or come closer together, and you start to build
some toughness. Last year’s
pain that we went through,
even for the new guys, they inherited that pain. We told them
that. And you go through those
experiences together, and
you’re able to survive it, it’s
a great teacher and motivator,
and I think that helped us in all
the tough times this year.’’
Miami was rolling to the
title a year ago, going 12-3 in
the East playoffs and playing
the role of favorite heading
into the finals against the Dallas Mavericks. The Heat won
Game 1, were cruising to a
win late in Game 2, and then
the wheels came off - not only
did Miami drop that second
game, that started a stretch of
four losses in five games to
cost them the championship.
After that, this year was
championship or bust.
They didn’t bust.
‘’Last year it wasn’t as
hard and we lost the championship,’’ Heat guard Dwyane
Wade said. ‘’But we knew it
was going to be hard to become champions.’’
There came a point this
season when the Heat just
knew they were built to last.
Wade was dogged by injuries
at times in the regular season,
and the team never had more
than even a three-game slide.
In the playoffs, Chris Bosh
went down in Game 1 against
Indiana. The Heat lost Games
2 and 3 without him and
trailed in Game 4 before rallying to pull out that series. And
against Boston, Miami was in
serious trouble, facing a winor-else Game 6 on the road.
LeBron James had 45
points and 15 rebounds that
night. The Heat won the game,
won the next one to close out
the Celtics and then took four
of five against the Thunder.
James got his long-awaited
ring with a Finals MVP performance, Wade and Udonis Haslem got their second
championships, and every
other player on the Heat roster
got to enjoy celebrating with
the Larry O’Brien Trophy for
the first time.
‘’The Celtics series, man,
that was the most challenging
series that I’ve ever played in
- and I’ve played against the
Detroit Pistons,’’ Wade said.
‘’It was the very thing we dealt
with last year. We had to deal
with being again under the mi-
croscope against the Boston
Celtics, and they got us ready.
Our backs were against the
wall many times. But I knew,
when we went into Boston
and won Game 6, at that point
right there I knew we could be
world champions.’’
He was right.
James, Wade, Bosh and
Mario Chalmers exited together with 3:01 left to play
Thursday night, Miami by
that point well on the way to a
title-clinching 121-106 victory
over the Thunder. It was much
different from Wade’s first title, the one in Dallas where he
watched Jason Terry’s 3-pointer to tie the game bounce off
the rim and into his hands as
the clock ran out.
Wade and James had a
chat before Game 5, just silly
talk about how they would
envision the perfect finish.
Wade said he wanted to be
on the court for the clincher.
James said he would rather be
on the bench and celebrating
by that point. James’ vision
was the way it turned out.
For the first time in a
while, at least a few minutes
seemed easy.
‘’It was the hardest thing
I’ve ever done as a basketball
player, since I picked up a
basketball when I was 9 years
old,’’ James said, referring to
Miami’s postseason run. ‘’It’s
the hardest thing I ever done.
It’s not easy at all. You just
put a lot of hard work into it,
and hopefully one day you
hope that it pays off for you.
You know, this was a testament to that. I gave it my all,
and it paid off.’’
In the end, Wade didn’t
mind getting a three-minute
head start on the offseason,
either.
‘’We won and we’re
world champions,’’ Wade
said. ‘’One thing about this
team, we saved our best for
last.’’
16
SPORTS
VOL.5 ISSUE 80 • JUNE 24 - 25, 2012
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Little Azkals finish 3rd in Japan
By Neil Bravo
I
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N the young careers of
these two football talents
from Davao, the summer
of 2012 will be unforgettable.
With their exploits, anyone
can tell them now “I know
what you did last summer.”
Darius Joseph Diamante
and Javi Romero-Salas keyed
the Philippines’ Little Azkals
to an impressive third place
finish in the six-nation Japan-
East Asean Football Exchange
Programme U-14 Youth Football Festival at the sprawling
J-Green Sakai football complex in Osaka, Japan.
The Little Azkals gained
the respectable finish with
a scoreless draw against a
tough Singapore squad in
their final assignment. The
draw came after the fighting
Philippines side bowed 0-4 to
host Japan which went on to
win the title.
“The scoreline did not
reflect the tough stand of
the boys, they fought hard
against the Japanese kids
who were simply the superior team,” narrated one team
iinsider.
The U-14 Little Azkals,
needing at least a draw to
salvage third, accomplished
their target when they came
back in the afternoon and
gave their all against the
charging Singaporeans.
Indonesia, the other team
which beat the Philippines,
finished second while Singapore wound up fourth behind
the Philippines, followed by
Malaysia (5th) and Brunei
(6th).
The Philippines thus finished their stint with 2 wins,
1 draw and 2 losses. They
opened their campaign on
Tuesday by beating Brunei
3-0 on goals by Marco Casambre, Javi Romero-Salas and
Mason Vergara, lost to Indonesia 2-0 before coming back
on Wednesday with a win
over Malaysia 2-1 on team
captain Darius Joseph “Jed”
Diamante’s 2-goal explosion.
“It’s a great experience
playing in this level, we
learned a lot here especially
when playing against the
tough teams like Japan and
Indonesia,” said the Davaoborn Diamante.
The Little Azkals’ are
composed of Cebu’s Lawrence
Colina, Major Dean Ebarle,
Kintaro Miyagi, and Vincent
Erik Lovitos; Manila’s Marco
Alessandro Casambre, Harrel Rainier Dayan, Josh Albert
Miller, Ray Vincent Sanciangco
and John William Abraham;
Cagayan de Oro’s Jeremiah
Borlongan and Dimitri Lionel
Limbo; Davao’s Darius Joseph
Diamante and Javier RomeroSalas; Dumaguete’s Christian
Floren Lapas and Jose Anton
Yared, Dipolog’s Sebastian
Rafael Patangan; San Carlos
City’s Mason Trent Vergara;
and Italy’s Lorenzo Genco.
Coaching the squad is Oliver Colina.
The team will spend the
day shopping in Japan on Friday before returning to Manila on Sunday via Hongkong.